updated 22nd October @ 00:03 EDT
I treated myself to a Kindle a couple of months ago, and I'm pleased to say that I've been enjoying it a lot. I've read just over a half-dozen books on it so far; some at home and some while traveling.
updated 11th September @ 13:26 EDT
I'm looking for a senior-level engineer to help extend the web-based dashboards for our messaging infrastructure platform.
This position reports directly to me.
updated 29th August @ 23:48 EDT
We at Message Systems are looking for someone to fill the position of "Technical Trainer / Curriculum Developer".
This position designs, develops and delivers online and in-person instructor led trainings on the Message Systems products and services for a variety of audiences including customers, partners and internal staff. You will design courses and instructional material for everything ranging from short informational quick-starts to multi-day workshops.
updated 29th August @ 20:10 EDT
Busy times here mean that I'm leaving it a bit late to say this, but I'll be at ZendCon this year too. I'll be giving the usual talk on PDO, but my main reason for attending this year is to sync up with other PHP folks and talk about where PHP is at and where it's going.
ZendCon has been consistently good, and I look forward to attending again this year... see you there?
updated 25th July @ 00:16 EDT
Here are the slides from my Cocoa talk:
I'm about to go on the road again and I've been getting my laptop updated to make sure I can function without internet access. For me that means that I need a linux environment. I've been using Parallels for this because it was the only option when I first got my macbook, and I'm not terribly impressed with its ability to run linux virtual machines.
First I have to say that my preferred usage for vms is to disable as much graphical UI as possible and login using the terminal; I want to avoid any excess resource usage because I'm on a laptop and I want better battery life.
Here are the slides from my Streams talk; they cover a variety of bits and pieces of streams background and implementation that may or may not be useful to you.
updated 25th June @ 22:31 EDT
This slide deck is from php|works 2004. There's a lot of material in the speaker notes, which I've painstakingly pasted into the comment on the slideshare representation (wouldn't it be cool if it could automatically do that?).
updated 25th June @ 00:17 EDT
Here are the slides from my Best Mailing Practices talk.
While I was googling around to find the abstract I submitted with this, I discovered that there's an audio recording of me giving the talk at ZendCon 2007.
updated 24th June @ 22:50 EDT
[I've just noticed that the omniti.com re-design broke the various links from my blog to the slides I had been storing there. So I'm trying out slideshare; I'll be revisiting the slides I've given in the past and blogging one entry per presentation]
Here are the extended slides from my PDO talk. When I first put this talk together it was for a long hour slot, but conference sessions started to diminish in length and I had to pull out certain slides to avoid running over every time.
updated 22nd June @ 01:52 EDT
updated 5th April @ 12:29 EDT
I'm pleased to announce that I'll be speaking at OSCON again. I have the pleasure of co-presenting an Extending PHP tutorial session with Marcus Boerger