Monday, August 30. 2004

With the release of SP2 will come the final blow to an effective pop-up advertisement. Finally!

What will be the next ad scheme online? Have we reached a point where ads will be more controlled, or will they be more annoying than ever?

Thursday, August 26. 2004

My company, Community Connect, is looking to hire some solid PHP developers. We're a New York City based company with a great culture and some really brilliant people. I can attest to the place being a great place to work, as can George Schlossnagle (who used to work there before he went into business for himself).

Interested and have a strong background in PHP (Zend Certified a plus), MySQL, and/or Oracle? Enjoy working on high traffic sites where optimization and forethought is a requirenent? E-mail me your resume at <john@coggeshall.org> and I'll put you on the list!

Tuesday, August 24. 2004

Well, I finally made it out to my first NYPHP Meeting. I must say I am very impressed with both the size of the group that is here and the quality of the talks being given! I walked in a little late, but caught the tail end of what looked like a really good talk on making full fledged online applications using JavaScript, XML-RPC, and of course PHP. Right now I am listening to a nice talk on MySQL clustering and of course blogging using my new Treo 600 smartphone -- how cool is that?!

Anyway, I am sure we will go out for some food soon. If you live in NYC I really recommend you come stop by at NYPHP!

Tuesday, August 24. 2004

For those of you who subscribe, the August 2004 issue of php|architect is available. It features on its cover an article I wrote on some of the new and improved features of PHP 5, with a very intentional lack of focus on the new object model. It's a good article for those who have already familiar with the OO improvements of PHP5 but are curious what else it really has to offer. I discuss things such as improved database support, drastically improved XML support, and much more!

Go check it out!

Thursday, August 12. 2004

The blog problems and other misc. site problems should be improving. Thank you to everyone who has e-mailed me to let me know of problems -- especially taking the time to do so when you tried to leave a comment and it wouldn't work! If you had problems making a comment before (for instance to show interest in my plugins for S9Y and/or Smarty please feel free to try it again as it should work now.

I still haven't gotten time to put up the pages for the individual OSS projects, but they are in the pipe.

Wednesday, August 11. 2004

Notice the Cellphone picture plugin on the right now. That is actually a plugin I originally wrote for Smarty as a function (which you can see working on the main page), but i ported it in about 8 minutes to Serendipity so I could put it on the blog as well.

There are really two parts to this -- getting the picture from the cell to my photo gallery and getting the last submitted photo from an album into a plugin. I'm considering releasing both the Smarty Gallery plugin as well as the Serendipity port of it into the wild, does anyone care enough for me to clean it up for that purpose? I'm also considering publishing the script which processes photos from a cell phone and inserts them into gallery, so let's include that in our little poll too..

(note to self, i need a voting plugin...)

Wednesday, August 11. 2004

The new site, especially the blog, has a few problems with it still. Please be patient while I get them addressed! The problems are especially when you goto the blog from blog.coggeshall.org -- if you don't feel like waiting for me to fix the glitches you can point yourself to http://www.coggeshall.org/blog/ instead.

Sunday, August 8. 2004

For those of you who somehow missed it (and how could you if you are actually reading this), I've completely redesigned coggeshall.org. This version of the web site is almost a complete-rewrite from the ground up of what was running before. There wasn't anything really wrong with the old web site, except I was finding it rather difficult to add new stuff because the architecture was really put together in haste. Coggeshall.org 2.0 is designed with a lot more in mind, and hopefully I won't be re-writing it again anytime soon.

For those of you who are curious, the site is built almost completely on top of Smarty using my IntSmarty extension to provide multi-lingual support. (Yes, I actually plan on convincing someone to translate the site into at least German). In places other than the blog, many of the little widgets you see (such as the "My Cellphone sees" thing on the main page) is done using a single Smarty function {lastphoto} which I wrote to pull the last entered photo from an album in Gallery. People give Smarty a hard time, but I found when properly applied it's a really intuitive way to design a site and not really that slow at all as almost all of the content once generated is cached.

With a complete site re-design I am sure there will be bugs, please let me know if you encounter them. I am aware that the individual project pages for the open source projects are not yet available, bare with me as I try to find the time to put them online.

Other than that, let me know what you think of the new look and feel!

Wednesday, August 4. 2004

Comments have been disabled until I find the time to implement something that is going to keep these blog spamming jackasses (yes, you are jackasses) off my blog.

Wednesday, August 4. 2004

Comments have been disabled until I find the time to implement something that is going to keep these blog spamming jackasses (yes, you are jackasses) off my blog.