http://www.grepmymind.com Wonder what’s on my mind? Now you know. Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:01:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Terry Chay will be returning to speak again!  Due to popular demand Terry has agreed to give his recent "Making frameworks suck less" talk that he gave to the ZendCon08 UnCon this year. Be sure to wear comfortable shoes 'cause Terry will pack the room! RSVP here: http://php.meetup.com/139/calendar/8911737/ The blurb from ... http://www.grepmymind.com/2008/10/09/making-frameworks-suck-less-sf-php-meetup-nov-2008/ from my presidential candidates is a debate on the issues facing our country, not inuendo and attacks.  I want to hear how Candidate A believes their economic policies are better than Candidate B's policy or how B has more experience than C because of x, y, and z. The last few ... http://www.grepmymind.com/2008/10/06/what-i-want-to-hear/ Wow! Just Wow! I was browsing CNN this morning and I came across the article about how scientists are creating material that can redirect light around objects. This is pretty cool stuff. No longer is Harry Potter going to be the only one with an awesome invisibility ... http://www.grepmymind.com/2008/08/11/invisibility-cloak-not-just-for-harry-potter-anymore/ I posted a bunch of pictures (>1,000) to Flickr yesterday & today and then organized the existing photos into sets and collections. My favorite is probably this one from the set pictures Denise had done at Sears. http://www.grepmymind.com/2008/08/10/posted-and-organized-a-ton-of-pictures-on-flickr/ Last Thursday's SF PHP Meetup had a pretty good turnout; about 70 people by my count.  Joe Stump from Digg.com gave his talk titled "Deploying code with PEAR" to the group.  Thanks to Ray and Roger from zynga.com who contributed pizza & sodas for an opportunity to tell the developers ... http://www.grepmymind.com/2008/08/10/aug-php-meetup-was-a-success/ /sigh.  What a crazy week.  E3 and the meetup fubar really screwed up my mood.  E3 is now over and the meetup fubar has been resolved.  If I could hit reset I truely would. So after my email earlier this week to Rana, he responded and said that he thought about ... http://www.grepmymind.com/2008/07/18/okay-so-i-am-the-sf-php-meetup-organizer/ Edit: This issue was resolved a few days later. For the past nine months I have been organizing the San Francisco PHP Meetup group. During this time I was always under the impression that when the official organizer of the group resigned that the group would transfer to me so ... http://www.grepmymind.com/2008/07/14/no-longer-the-organizer-of-the-sf-php-meetup/ Kudos to Mariano for taking the lead while I'm out on paternity leave (I'm going to write about that ones of these days) and setting up July's PHP Meetup.  Thanks to an introduction from Terry, Mariano asked Andrei Zmievski to talk about the unicode updates to PHP 6.  Due to ... http://www.grepmymind.com/2008/06/29/sf-php-meetup-july-2008-phpunicode-i18n/ The tenants of my townhouse in Rohnert Park are moving out at the end of July.  Kind of bad timing since work is going to be so busy for the entire month.  :(  Not really a big deal except they told me the week before that they were planning on ... http://www.grepmymind.com/2008/06/29/3br15-bath-rohnert-park-townhouse-for-rent/ A shameless plug for CNET... We're hiring a few Senior Software Engineers for GameSpot.com, TV.com and Chow.com. Yes, that's a Sr SE positions for each of those sites. We're raising the bar and looking to bring on some powerful coders to expand the functionality of our ... http://www.grepmymind.com/2008/05/29/gamespot-and-tv-are-hiring/