Archive for the year 2009

communication 2.0 is lame

Today I experienced an enormous flashing light above my head so will write about it now. Communication 2.0 is chaotic and lame. I write to blogs (this one, comments on others), micro-blogs (twitter), social networks (facebook), mailing lists (e.g., php docs), forums and other places yet it’s all scattered and lost as opposed to being [...]

simple lock bumping unlocks most of our locks

Today I stumbled upon information about Bump Keys and am worried. Two main concerns: Most every keyed lock on the planet can easily be opened by anyone I was totally ignorant on the subject, and assume I’m not alone Basically a Bump Key can be created and used by anyone (you, me, anyone) to open [...]

a kudos to php geek felipe pena

Paul has written a few posts about members of the PHP community and this inspired one by me. It’s about a guy few hear about but all benefit from and his name is Felipe Pena. Somewhat anonymous in the PHP community, he’s a true superstar within the PHP.net project itself. His path began with several [...]

Learning how to help people contribute to the PHP.net Project

While exploring ways to improve how the PHP project finds and teaches new contributors, I wondered how other projects do it so started the process of evaluating several. So far I’ve fallen in love with the Ubuntu approach because they offer a ton of information and promote it well. The PHP project does neither of [...]