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June 22 2010
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You’ve probably heard about “the cloud”. It’s the latest buzzword circulating in Silicon Valley and beyond. In some ways, “cloud” is a fitting name - everyone sees something different when they look at it. For example, offerings as dissimilar as force.com and Amazon’s MapReduce service have worked their way in to “the cloud” moniker at some point. Even the cloud’s biggest advocates can’t agree on what “the cloud” is. But in teasing the facts out of all the hype, you’ll find some services that could change how you write and deploy your PHP applications forever. |
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| December 28 2010 |
| Allow me to coin a word: hack·le /ˈhækəl/, noun - A group of 2 or more people working with little or no coordination on one or more software projects: Apache is “a patchy” web server built with patches submitted by a large, distributed hackle from around the world. Yes, there are already enough words in the [...] ... read more >> |
| June 07 2010 |
| I just got back from the International PHP Conference, Spring Edition, and a new company paid my airfare. Makara has asked me to help tell the PHP crowd about their product and establish an OSS community around future projects. Call me lazy, but I prefer to work on projects that largely sell themselves. Makara is [...] ... read more >> |
| May 19 2010 |
| A friend of mine who’s been thinking about the cloud for a while now came by last week for dinner. Not only does he grok what I’ve been calling the metacloud, he’s already thinking about (and building) a ‘cloud-native’, object-oriented language to program it. After a couple of beers- both drunk by me- he and I took [...] ... read more >> |
| May 13 2010 |
| I've been thinking a lot about the cloud lately. Let me float a few of my latest ideas here. ... read more >> |
| March 26 2010 |
| That's right, I'm working a new framework. Lithium's the name, the Union of RAD is the game. ... read more >> |
| March 25 2010 |
| You read it right. With the turn of the year, I turned a page in my career. I really wish that didn't rhyme. ... read more >> |
| October 19 2009 |
| I’m a busy guy this week. I’m talking about PHP and Platform Independence in the Cloud at ZendCon, as well as sitting on the keynote panel about Developing on the Cloud. The Simple Cloud API site is due for an update, too. But I’m not the only one busting ass to bring the cloud to [...] ... read more >> |
| September 26 2009 |
| Welcome to a simpler cloud! ... read more >> |
| August 11 2009 |
| With the new Zend_Service_Amazon_SQS component in Zend Framework 1.9, ZF is quickly becoming the tool of choice for PHP developers building applications for the Amazon flavor of the cloud. This brings us up to full EC2, S3, and now SQS support, and I’m working with ZF’s best to fill out this list with SimpleDB in [...] ... read more >> |