I’ve spent this morning trying to get ASDoc to generate code documentation for the JASPA APIs, with mixed results.
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Monthly Archives: March 2009
Lessons learned … again
I re-learned a few old lessons last week.
- 1&1 suck like it’s going out of fashion
- The only backup is a full disk image backup
- I am not a Linux sysadmin
And finally a lesson for 1&1 .. good customer service is about exceeding expectations not covering your arse*.
#dmblock
When I block a commercial user on Twitter I hashtag it #dmblock, a few people have assumed [almost] rightly that DM stands for Direct Message. It could do, buy actually I intended it to stand for Direct Marketing – it could also stand for Data Mining. Continue reading…
JASPA on WebDevGeekly podcast
After a brief exchange of tweets with @jsmag I discover this web development ‘podcast’ : webdevgeekly.com, which appears to be run by the same people as jsmag.com. About 9 minutes into the following podcast there is a 2 minute discussion about JASPA. Conveniently just 24 hours after I rescued my site from a hardware crash.
> http://www.webdevgeekly.com/r/www.webdevgeekly.com/mp3/geekly6.mp3
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Farce Majeure
Disaster has struck and I have lost all my uploads on this blog. Lots of links to code examples, Flash demos and images will be broken. I may be able to restore some, but it’s going to take a lot of work, and I may as well be honest – I’m probably not going to bother.
I’ll post with the full, fascinating story of my epic fail later on. Continue reading…
PHP UK Conference 2009
Microsoft slurs, geeks and bean bags
On Friday I was at PHP UK Conference 2009, thanks to my boss, and a charming discount from the Facebook Developer Garage. Here’s what I thought.
The biggest presence here was undoubtedly Microsoft, followed at a distance by Adobe. Zend had a very small stand and don’t appear to have been a sponsor. I found this a little odd from the outset, but I guess it’s the big corporations that have the cash, and can ensure they don’t miss a single conference. Microsoft bribed us with the usual toys: XBoxes, the magic table thing … you know the drill. I was of course there to hear about the future of PHP, particularly PHP 6, and why we’re still just a cool as Python and Ruby.
To save you skim-readers the full breakdown, here’s my conclusion up-front: All in all a good day, but I wanted more talk of PHP’s future and could have done with less of the Adobe stuff. Most of the speakers were great, even if the subject matter missed a bit in places. Also, I know we’re trying to save the planet and everything, but could Olympia please turn the heating on next time!