A Personal Blog
Archive for June, 2003
To Sterling Hughes
Jun 6th
Sterling Hughes is, I’ve heard, quite the persona in the PHP world. I’d like to congratulate him on an incredibly well written post to his blog.
While I am not one of those who hopes PHP dies, it is certainly refreshing to see someone who knows and loves PHP appreciating where it can evolve, and some great things that can be modelled. (more…)
Embracing Team
Jun 6th
I just came out of a meeting with the CEO here at work and had a sudden jolt of reality: I don’t have to do everything. Even deeper, I don’t need to know everything, it’s okay if all my ideas aren’t right and it’s even okay if someone else’s idea is wrong (and mine’s better) and theirs gets done anyways. (more…)
Inspiration or Homage
Jun 6th
Back in the day (certainly a long time ago) when I was a designer, arguments about what “inspiration” versus “copying” were abounded. I’m sure they still do to this day, though they are typically called “rips” as opposed to copies, which is why I wasn’t surprised when a PHP friend of mine, Harry Fuecks, stated equivocally (as Harry often does) that .NET and Java were now paying “homage” (ripping, copying, whatever… at least he was civil about it ;)) to PHP with the recent release of “Nuke” toolkits for both.
Both JBoss (read more about it here, and all credit to Harry for the links) and .NET both released similar toolkits, at least in name, to the various PHP Nuke projects (phpnuke, postnuke, etc).
But, to what degree is this copying? Is it just marketing hype? Did they truly borrow ideas from “Nuke”? Is it all just common sense? (more…)
Application Scalability
Jun 5th
I was recently having a decent conversation with some friends online about where scalability should reside or, more importantly, where it shouldn’t.
While scalability in web applications, which is what we were mainly discussing, is something which is typically ignored (except in the largest of applications); it is nonetheless important – especially with the new range of tools like .NET and J2EE which encourage developers to think of web applications as actual applications.
My thoughts could easily be organized into 3 main areas: Development Style, Abstraction and Application Servers. (more…)
