Richards Blog PHP, food and life

For those few that do check my blog out from time to time, I am looking for a couple of PHP web developers in the Seattle (office in renton highlands) area to help with a couple projects.

All the standard crap, you know familiar with PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS, blah blah blah you have seen it before.

I am open to any applicants including any students looking to build up some industry exp and need a summer job.

Email a resume and some links to any work you have done to richard [at] phpjack.com

As I mentioned in the prior post I am pretty much a "Jack of all Trades" when it comes to website development. I have done it all from the ground up, hardware, os, apache/mail/mysql, and finally php programming so when I decided to give consulting full time another shot (last time I got hired on full time and dropped the consulting) the name "PHPJack" seemed extremely fitting.

I have left my position at BrokerBin.com part of this change involves moving back to Seattle to be closer to family and friends out there.

The other part of this change is taking some time off from the "7am-5pm if I am lucky" daily grind of being a System Admin/Programmer/Office Support/Handling any and all technical related tasks to spend the next year with my family and watching my 2 year old grow up.

Going to the PHP Quebec Conference next month, should be interesting.

http://conf.phpquebec.com/

Just wondering if there are any others out there that would be interested in getting together once and a while to discuss PHP and various other related technologies.

Right now I have to drive 1 1/2 hours to the nearest php group.

If your interested please give me a holler through the feedback.

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One big mess in the PHP community!!

The problem is the people against the CLA are thinking with emotion and not rational thought. The main argument? CLA's are worthless and hold no legal ground....

You know what I say to that? WHO CARES!!! If a stupid signed piece of paper gets the developers from major databases providing more direct assistance, support and debugging for PHP database drivers then it doesn't matter if the piece of paper is legal or not.

If you have a single drive Centos 5.1 will not install until you go into the BIOS and set it up to use RAID mode.. for some reason in IDE mode it pukes loading the ata_piix drivers.

It also would only install in text mode, it didn't like the 128MB NVIDIA GeForce 8300GS DVI/VGA that was on the system it seems, it failed to setup X so I had to download the nvidia driver and install that before I could get a gui up and running

This is the second year in a row where I have made fresh cranberry sauce and let me tell you everyone loved it!

I will never buy the stuff in a can again.

1 bag of cranberries
1 orange
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 water

Juice the orange into a sauce pan, then zest the orange to get about 1/2 teaspoon of zest, Add sugar and water.. Bring to a boil then add cranberries.

Simmer around 20 minutes, cranberries will pop and it will all thicken slightly.. Pull out and put in fridge.. Once everything cools you will have a nice thick cranberry sauce that beats any canned variety you can buy.

I posted a comment on http://blog.digitalstruct.com/2007/12/23/zend-framework-performance-zend... but wanted to go into a little more depth.

When you use Zend_Loader your files are wrapped in conditional statements. These statements prevent APC and all other cache/accelerator programs to have problems properly caching your file.

In some past articles and in a couple places online I advocate using a custom memcache/db based php session handler. Lately I have gotten a few people ask me why use both? The complaint being that using both increases overhead.

One of those articles is http://www.cyberlot.net/improving-php-sessions. The main issue people seem to have is number 3.

There are a number of reasons to use both, if your site uses any type of persistence having the sessions in the database will allow your sessions to live through a reboot while memcache only sessions would not!