Code and Whatnot

The last six weeks have been pretty insane! I will stay relatively cryptic about the details, but, as my friends already know, I have changed jobs twice in that time period. The job for which I left HUGE seemed like a great opportunity, but I found myself highly uncomfortable in the position. […]

I’m very pleased and humbled to announce my new job as Web Development Lead at Practice Technologies (aka PTI). PTI has been around for several years, providing extremely powerful document management software for law firms. Lately, they’ve been pushing some of their rich data services online, such as RealDealDocs and SmartRules. These […]

Here’s a quick update. After about 5 weeks working at HUGE, I’ve gotten a lot done. I’ve learned Perforce quite well, and I’ve learned my way around the Java Spring framework as well as any front-end developer would ever need.
My main contribution so far has been the establishment, automation, and documentation of front-end […]

On Monday I accepted a ‘Tech Lead’ position at HUGE, Inc. I’m very excited to be helping them expand and solidify their presence in California. The position is an incredible opportunity for me. I’ll be helping them build their team, doing a lot of actual UI work, refining their development process, meeting […]

The New York Times, aptly on my father’s birthday, had an article highlighting the so-called “anti-anti-clutter” movement. The anti-anti-clutter movement would like you to know that organization equipment is another form of mess. They would like you to know that people with messy desks and homes are intelligent and creative, are better parents, […]

Zend’s morning keynote yesterday was rather disorganized, but other than that the conference is exceeding my expectations. The keynote from Chris Anderson was incredible, and notable presentations so far include Adam Trachtenberg’s presentation on EBay web services and Stephen O’Grady’s presentation on the place of PHP in the enterprise. I’m sure many will […]

Limited only by the capabilities of the OnForce API, the "Crisscott’s" client (not an OnForce product) harnesses the cross-platform prowess of GTK and the ease-of-use of PHP in a client he says took only a few hours to program. Scott Mattocks is the documenter of PHP-GTK, and the author of the authoritative volume on […]

WooHoo!. If only it was driving traffic to this blog…
Download here.

UPDATE: I am now hosting the source code for this project on this blog.
Today OnForce was kind enough to release the server monitor tools I created in April and May. The newly LGPL-ed code is available for download, with basic README documentation included with the source. We haven’t exposed the subversion repository yet, […]

OnForce will be sending me to San Jose around Halloween for a 4-day stint at the Zend PHP Conference. I’m really looking forward to hearing some speakers on PHP frameworks and advanced web service implementations. One of our own, Scott Mattocks, will be presenting on "Consuming Web Services with PHP-GTK 2". Scott […]