Blog Death Knell

I’m a bit overdue on writing up my thoughts on the third annual DC PHP Conference, but I had been considering how to re-purpose this blog to allow me to post more frequently on a more tightly focused set of topics, so actually writing has been on the back burner, metaphorically speaking. The conclusion I’ve ultimately come to is that I don’t have the time or energy to maintain a blog for OEIC at this point. My hands are full with actual development work, and I don’t have the passion to cover the endless stream of new tools and events that coming flooding out of the internet since I’m not particularly interested in huge volumes of noise. Fortunately, there are millions of people handling that for me.

Perhaps if I decide to take the plunge, and grow OEIC as a business, I’ll re-open. Until then, some final shoutouts from the DC PHP conference of a few weeks back.

Mike Lively gave an excellent two part presentation on unit testing with PHPUnit that was quite droll, as well as informative.

Eli White offered an in depth look at the sort of data shuffling you can hope to deal with if you get as popular as Digg.

David Sklar (who it seems also cannot be bothered to update his website) demoed an assortment of PHP scripts to analyze your PHP scripts, and also peeked beneath 14 layers of PHP petticoats with dtrace. It appears Ning has some excellent engineers aboard.

Open Source fun

jQuery wins

Zend Framework 1.5 Preview

Exceeding Expectations

Transparency counts

Broad and deep

Enabling mod_rewrite and .htaccess in the LAMP Virtual Appliance

Zend_Filter_Input and arrays

Web platforms