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Pizza, anyone?
Jun 10th
Ever order pizza online? For the past few years, Papa Johns has been taking online ordering. I’ve used it. Quite nice. And still prompt delivery. Who woulda thunk it.
But hey. Would you like the traditional cheese and pepperoni? Or maybe some anchovies for some late night/early morning dream funkiness? Perhaps you’d just like some pizza a la penguin? According to LinuxDevices.com, this may not be far out. Evidently, several thousand Papa Johns restaurants will be outfitted with new state-of-the-art sealed linux boxes to use as their POS terminals.
All I’ve got to say is yay for Linux.
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…)
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…)
