From the monthly archives:

August 2009

a perplexing paucity of PHP programmers

August 27, 2009

My friend Abbas Ali, who is one of the lead programmers for the open-source Coppermine gallery project, writes with mild frustration about the seeming shortage of talented PHP programmers in India. He cites a number of reasons, one of which is a lack of good trainers: Unfortunately in India you need a trainer for learning [...]

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Tags to Hashtags

August 21, 2009

I’ve written a new plugin for wordpress entitled “AHP Tags to Hashtags” for use with WordPress and WordPress MU. The plugin can be found for now at pastebin here, I will update when it’s been added to the official wordpress plugin repository. The plugin appends the tags for each post to the post title in [...]

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backups should be local, not to the cloud

August 12, 2009

One of the lessons of Friendfeed’s buyout by Facebook is that the cloud is not a good place for backup. In an era of the sub-$100 terabyte, the idea that the best place for our data should be anywhere other than right at home is a strange one. Cloud backup is useful as a meta-backup [...]

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true blue: facebook friends friendfeed, whales on twitter

August 10, 2009

This is potentially huge – Facebook has acquired Friendfeed: Obviously Facebook has already built out some of FriendFeed’s functionality so there is some overlap, but there are still numerous ways FriendFeed beats out Facebook’s News Feed setup. One of these is the way stories are ‘floated’ to the top as new users comment on them. [...]

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