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John Resig has an interesting blog post on embedded JavaScript. It’s something I’ve been thinking about for a little while.
It would be awesome to see a PHP extension to embed SpiderMonkey into PHP. As far as I’m aware Facebook is the only one that’s taken a step in that direction with FBJS, which [...]

Google announced the project lists for Summer Of Code 2008. Some of the more interesting projects from my perspective:
Adium

Data Detectors for Adium

Dojo Foundation

Native cryptography API for Google Gears
Dojo-Charting improvements
Dojo GFX Enhancement

FFmpeg

AAC-LC Encoder
MLP/TrueHD encoder
Apple Lossless Encoder for FFmpeg

Gallery

Facebook / Flickr Style Image Region Based Tagging

Inkscape

SVG Fonts

Joomla!

Multi-DB support, and Database abstraction layer implementation for Joomla!

The Mozilla [...]

So the format war of Blue-ray vs. HD-DVD is over. There are still several other rather significant battles going on in the tech world right now that aren’t Microsoft vs. Apple or Yahoo vs. Google. For example:
Adobe Air vs. Mozilla Prism vs. Microsoft Silverlight
Google Gears vs. HTML5 Offline support
Android vs. iPhone SDK vs. [...]

Over the past few weeks, I’ve been in the process of setting up a new home server. The previous one was an old Beige G3 (266MHz) running Mac OS X 10.2 that was starting to show it’s age. The new system is a much more capable B&W G3 (400MHz) running Mac OS X [...]

Snoopy is a PHP class that automates many common web browsing functions making it easier to fetch and navigate the web using PHP. It’s pretty handy. I found an interesting bug recently and diagnosed it this afternoon.
If you navigate to a 301 or 302 redirect in a subdirectory you can get [...]

Here’s a great read on Wikipedia’s Infrastructure. Two excellent sets of slides. A lot can be done with a LAMP stack. The common theme: caching and careful optimization. There are some really impressive stats in there.

So I downloaded and tested out Coda a little bit today. My initial impression is that I’m very impressed. It could be the new standard. A few like Alex King point out that it uses Safari as the default engine. I don’t think that’s so bad. Nothing stops you from [...]

Several weeks ago I was looking on line for a way to have PHP execute a background process, so that the page didn’t hang while some functionality happened. One way to do that is to use fsockopen() to open a URL to exec what you want. But I wanted to see if there [...]

Found this rather interesting:

It’s been known for a while Yahoo is a PHP user, but it’s interesting to see them giving back. Very cool.

I’ve been really busy lately, hence posting is a bit light. I plan to pickup soon. I’ve been working on many things.
On a side note, switching programming languages (Visual Basic .NET, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, PHP, Perl) all in one day can be very confusing at times. I’ve been finding myself mixing up [...]