Re: [nyphp-talk] Seeking A Remote Developer Position

2012-09-06 Thread Jake McGraw
Try StackOverflow Careers. http://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs?searchTerm=php&range=20&istelecommute=true On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 10:52 AM, Joseph Crawford wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > I have over 14 years of experience with PHP/MySQL and I am looking for a > position at a company which would

Re: [nyphp-talk] validating proper name capitalization

2011-09-23 Thread Jake McGraw
$proper_name = ucwords(strtolower($fullname)); Of course this messes up names like mine (Jake McGraw becomes Jake Mcgraw), but, I'm used to it :( jake On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 9:54 AM, David Mintz wrote: > > I'm trying to require users to input proper names with capitalization

Re: [nyphp-talk] Image resizing/cropping on the fly

2011-09-07 Thread Jake McGraw
Federico Ulfo » <http://www.federicoulfo.it/> > Certified Developer Google & PHP > <http://www.federicoulfo.it/> > > > > On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 12:43 PM, Jake McGraw wrote: > >> If any of the following causes an error and display_errors == 1, you'll &g

Re: [nyphp-talk] Image resizing/cropping on the fly

2011-09-07 Thread Jake McGraw
If any of the following causes an error and display_errors == 1, you'll get output and PHP will default to text/html: header('Content-type :image/jpeg'); header('Content-Length: ' . filesize( $image ) ); $file = file_get_contents( $image ); If you have any whitespace prior to header(), you'll ge

Re: [nyphp-talk] How much is a site redesign worth?

2011-04-02 Thread Jake McGraw
NYC programmers should be charging much greater than $50/hour. What's $50/hour after the Federal, State and Local governments get their cut? As a consultant/part-timer/freelancer you'll be getting paid via 1099, which, at least in NYC, will be taxed at up to 45%. I haven't worked in finance, but wh

Re: [nyphp-talk] Pear::LiveUser (or other ACL / RBAC Package)

2011-02-02 Thread Jake McGraw
What were some of the short comings you encountered while using Zend_Acl? I switched a fairly large PHP app to Zend Framework a year ago and thought Zend_Acl was a helpful component over the homegrown system we had built. - jake On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 1:55 PM, Bill P. wrote: > Hello, > > Does a

Re: [nyphp-talk] Amazon's new Free Tier

2010-11-16 Thread Jake McGraw
I'd highly recommend Linode. They've got a datacenter in NJ, which is super fast for us NYC residents, great uptime when compared to shared hosting providers, fast turnaround time for tickets and their smallest instance (512MB RAM, 16GB space, 100GB transfer) is only $20 a month. - jake On Tue, N

Re: [nyphp-talk] Minor rant, pass by reference during method invocation depreciated

2010-07-02 Thread Jake McGraw
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 10:58 AM, John Campbell wrote: >> $grantUser object updated with the new levels or not. If I know I am dealing >> with the current user, than I want the admin authority to immediately be >> applied so it will flow to all future function calls: >> $return= Application::setUse

Re: [nyphp-talk] Zend

2010-02-16 Thread Jake McGraw
Also, if you have pear installed and working: pear channel-discover zfcampus.org pear install zfcampus/ZF Your pear path should be a part of your include path. - jake On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Rob Marscher wrote: > On Feb 15, 2010, at 2:04 PM, Kahlil Haynes wrote: >> If you have Zend i

Re: [nyphp-talk] HipHop C++ "transformer" for PHP

2010-02-03 Thread Jake McGraw
Check out this article for the run down (who HipHop is aimed at): http://terrychay.com/article/hiphop-for-faster-php.shtml - jake On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 10:26 AM, Guilherme Blanco wrote: > it's not available yet. > > On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Fernando Gabrieli wrote: >> do you know if it

Re: [nyphp-talk] MyISAM vs InnoDB

2010-01-21 Thread Jake McGraw
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 1:19 PM, Eddie Drapkin wrote: > On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 1:09 PM, Jake McGraw wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 1:05 PM, Matt Juszczak wrote: >>>> InnoDB for everything but tables that require fulltext search, which >>>> is not yet suppor

Re: [nyphp-talk] MyISAM vs InnoDB

2010-01-21 Thread Jake McGraw
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 1:05 PM, Matt Juszczak wrote: >> InnoDB for everything but tables that require fulltext search, which >> is not yet supported on InnoDB. > > Can always use something like lucene for this. Yea, but then you've got to keep a Tomcat instance up and know Java or use a PHP impl

Re: [nyphp-talk] MyISAM vs InnoDB

2010-01-21 Thread Jake McGraw
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 12:57 PM, Eddie Drapkin wrote: > The bottom line is InnoDB is transactional, (configured properly) ACiD > compliant, doesn't write-lock entire tables and supports foreign keys. >  Performance, next to these "features," isn't really a concern, IMO. > > On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 a

[nyphp-talk] Zend Corp listing Local PHP Groups

2010-01-12 Thread Jake McGraw
http://www.zend.com/en/community/local-php-groups Local PHP Groups We're building a PHP User Group directory on zend.com - get your User Group listed! You asked, we listened. Following requests from many PHPers, we will be dedicating an area on our website to PHP User Groups. As a first step, we a

Re: [nyphp-talk] IIS 7, trigger_error, and Large File Uploads

2010-01-04 Thread Jake McGraw
On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 9:05 AM, Justin Dearing wrote: > On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 7:17 AM, David Krings wrote: >>> >>> Just being curious and sorry for digressing, but which requirements would >>> that be? Running commodity tasks on the most expensive server OS with the >>> worst web server availabl

Re: [nyphp-talk] email system for website

2010-01-03 Thread Jake McGraw
On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 5:59 PM, Matt Juszczak wrote: >> Sounds good, what is the second language? Perhaps you can use a bridge >> to prevent duplicating the code (have a single PHP implementation). > > Procedural PHP :) Ah, wut? So, you have one code base that uses OO MVC (or something like it) v

Re: [nyphp-talk] email system for website

2010-01-03 Thread Jake McGraw
On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 5:55 PM, Matt Juszczak wrote: >> after a successful action just use a wrapper for mail(). When you need >> to fire off 1000s of emails, use a system specifically built for that >> purpose. > > So how about this: > > For things like password recovery, private message notifica

Re: [nyphp-talk] email system for website

2010-01-03 Thread Jake McGraw
On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 5:09 PM, Matt Juszczak wrote: >> This is a good suggestion, I'd also recommend logging the email text >> (database or text log) and putting some kind of sanity check on the >> number of emails your app is sending out at any time. > > What you are both suggesting makes sense,

Re: [nyphp-talk] email system for website

2010-01-03 Thread Jake McGraw
On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 4:42 PM, Tim Lieberman wrote: > On Jan 3, 2010, at 4:24 PM, m...@atopia.net wrote: >> >> My final option, which I like best, is to create an email queue table that >> can be populated in many ways. For instant actions, I can populate it with >> triggers, and for passive emai

Re: [nyphp-talk] How Programming Language Fanboys See Each Other's Language

2009-12-22 Thread Jake McGraw
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 8:22 PM, Mitch Pirtle wrote: > On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 5:06 PM, Jerry B. Altzman wrote: >> on 12/22/2009 4:06 PM Hans Zaunere said the following: >>> >>> Just thought this would put a nice tie on the new year :) >>> http://www.bootup.io/img/auximg/developers-as-seen-by.jpg

Re: [nyphp-talk] Returning DB results as XML or JSON?

2009-12-03 Thread Jake McGraw
On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 2:19 PM, Gary Mort wrote: > > > On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 2:11 PM, Anthony Papillion > wrote: >> >> While this seems (and indeed is) a rather simple task, it's also fairly >> tedious. Is there anything out there that can help me auto-format them in >> one of those formats? Som

Re: [nyphp-talk] PHP and SOAP

2009-12-03 Thread Jake McGraw
Hate to further extend your comparison, but I've used Zend_Soap_Client from the Zend Framework and it works pretty well, very straight forward: http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.soap.client.html PS, You can get the Zend Framework through PEAR: pear channel-discover pear.zfcampus.org pear

Re: [nyphp-talk] Database vs. Code

2009-11-30 Thread Jake McGraw
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 2:00 AM, wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm working on a new project and I'm having a bit of trouble deciding what > should go in the code vs. Database for this project. > > The database is a forum type schema, so there are a lot of transactions going > on. For instance, when a re

Re: [nyphp-talk] using PHP to import large-ish SQL into mysql

2009-10-20 Thread Jake McGraw
Modify your insert statements to take advantage of LOAD DATA INFILE: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/load-data.html You should see a perf improvement. - jake On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 8:11 PM, Daniel Convissor wrote: > Hi Marc: > > FYI, in the future, when starting a new topic, make a who

Re: [nyphp-talk] developer's machine specs -- recomendations?

2009-10-19 Thread Jake McGraw
; > On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 4:32 PM, Jake McGraw wrote: >> >> Get the cheapest Intel based, aluminum MacBook with an end-user >> serviceable HD and RAM. Do not buy the white plastic MacBooks, they >> chip and warp like crazy, I've owned 4 (3 companies + 1 for my &g

Re: [nyphp-talk] developer's machine specs -- recomendations?

2009-10-19 Thread Jake McGraw
Get the cheapest Intel based, aluminum MacBook with an end-user serviceable HD and RAM. Do not buy the white plastic MacBooks, they chip and warp like crazy, I've owned 4 (3 companies + 1 for my girlfriend) and every single one has warped or chipped in some way. Throw in 4GB+ RAM and at least a 720

Re: [nyphp-talk] Magento Commerce Experience

2009-08-31 Thread Jake McGraw
It has a steep learning curve and can be very slow at times. That considered, it is designed in an incredibly modular manner, so you can pretty much provide an alternate module for any built-in code, so, it's highly customizable. It has one of the organized code bases I've ever seen. - jake On Mo

Re: [nyphp-talk] Time zone based on country/state/city

2009-08-25 Thread Jake McGraw
Also, you could just ask your users to supply their timezone... didn't think of that one! - jake On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 5:03 PM, Jake McGraw wrote: > On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 3:07 PM, Nelly Yusupova wrote: >> Hello Everyone, >> >> Is there a way to figure out a time z

Re: [nyphp-talk] Time zone based on country/state/city

2009-08-25 Thread Jake McGraw
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 3:07 PM, Nelly Yusupova wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > Is there a way to figure out a time zone based on country/state/city.  I > searched the web and could not find any resources. You have got two problems here: Most TZ databases are going to be LatLon specific, so, you'll

Re: [nyphp-talk] PHP Programmer's Revival Brew

2009-08-16 Thread Jake McGraw
I prefer two ice cold redbulls... but to each his own. 2009/8/13 Peter Sawczynec : > Ginger Tea > > > > > > 1 piece fresh ginger root (3" segment) > > 1 fresh orange > > 1 tbsp honey > > 2 cups water > > > > 1 mug > > Small strainer > >

Re: [nyphp-talk] So You Got a New PHP5 Job

2009-07-28 Thread Jake McGraw
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 9:31 AM, Justin Dearing wrote: > If their not using PHPDocumentor, setup a cron job to generate the > documentation every hour, even if runs locally on your laptop for now. Start > documenting the code as you make changes. > Even if there are no javadoc like comments in the

Re: [nyphp-talk] Best Cell Phone for a PHP Programmer

2009-07-28 Thread Jake McGraw
As a PHP developer I'm assuming you make web applications? That is, apps that will see the light of day in the form of a public web application? Perhaps for a bunch of clients? Those clients will most likely have an iPhone and they'll be none too pleased to see your web application rendering incorr

Re: [nyphp-talk] Frameworks & Fast Iterations

2009-07-27 Thread Jake McGraw
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 9:51 AM, David Mintz wrote: > > > On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 6:25 AM, Petros Ziogas > wrote: >> >> Actually I am referring to those exact features. >> Zend decided to change the way a project is deployed using Zend Bootstrap, >> Loader and Zend Tool. >> So suddenly all documen

Re: [nyphp-talk] Frameworks & Fast Iterations

2009-07-25 Thread Jake McGraw
On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 6:39 AM, Petros Ziogas wrote: > I have the exact same problem. > I find it a little immature to change the way a framework is deployed and > the setup after 6 months. > I created a nice CMS based on Zend 1.6 and now I see that 1.8.4 is > completely different and nothing work

Re: [nyphp-talk] Caching, proxies, sharding and other scaling questions

2009-07-25 Thread Jake McGraw
actually hard, it just takes time. > Not giving your engineers time to think things through takes their > efficiency and sets it on fire outside in the street. :-) > > -- Mitch > > On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 7:29 PM, Jake McGraw wrote: >> On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 6:45 PM, Ajai Kh

Re: [nyphp-talk] Caching, proxies, sharding and other scaling questions

2009-07-24 Thread Jake McGraw
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 6:45 PM, Ajai Khattri wrote: > On Fri, 24 Jul 2009, Jake McGraw wrote: > >> Whats your data size like? How many requests per second do you plan on >> handling? > > Its a very big site. Last year, we handled a total of 945 million page > views. And

Re: [nyphp-talk] Caching, proxies, sharding and other scaling questions

2009-07-24 Thread Jake McGraw
Whats your data size like? How many requests per second do you plan on handling? The easiest route for switching some of your data store routines from a relational database to a key/value store (memcache is nice, personally, I'm becoming a big fan of Redis) is to set up a single instance and see h

Re: [nyphp-talk] Do any URL Shortening services have an https accessiable url?

2009-07-24 Thread Jake McGraw
I answered this on Stack Overflow, but I thought the NYPHP may want to take advantage of the new service I had a small part in developing: http://woo.ly supports https URLs and has an API and support for custom domains. - jake On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 1:45 AM, Justin Dearing wrote: > Before I fal

Re: [nyphp-talk] JSON and MVC

2009-07-20 Thread Jake McGraw
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 12:38 PM, Ajai Khattri wrote: > On Mon, 20 Jul 2009, Hans Zaunere wrote: > >> I think this really begs some questions on current server-side frameworks >> and the MVC methodology.  Changes like this have already begun, namely in >> RoR and other platforms. >> >> Time for ano

Re: [nyphp-talk] JSON and MVC

2009-07-15 Thread Jake McGraw
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 11:52 AM, Hans Zaunere wrote: >> I've had great success using Zend Framework ContextSwitch Action >> Helper: >> >> http://woo.ly/9it >> >> It is a plugin for the Zend MVC system that detects what format you're >> requesting a page in, using explicitly set context (format) in

Re: [nyphp-talk] JSON and MVC

2009-07-15 Thread Jake McGraw
I've had great success using Zend Framework ContextSwitch Action Helper: http://woo.ly/9it It is a plugin for the Zend MVC system that detects what format you're requesting a page in, using explicitly set context (format) in the page request: http://myzendapp.com/module/controller/action?format=

Re: [nyphp-talk] the stale V in MVC web apps

2009-03-04 Thread Jake McGraw
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 10:49 AM, David Mintz wrote: > > I've got users working collaboratively all day long on a set of database > records. The view in front of them is frequently stale. A common old Web 1.0 > approach to solve this was to reload the page automatically every n seconds > with a met

Re: [nyphp-talk] PHP scripts running in JBoss

2009-02-23 Thread Jake McGraw
Try using this: http://php-java-bridge.sourceforge.net/pjb/ - jake On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Artur Marnik wrote: > Hi All > > In my company we are using Linux servers where we have PHP, mysql and all > other nice stuff. My new manager is a Java guy and he always worked with > Java and hi

Re: [nyphp-talk] State Of The PHP Economy 2009

2009-01-13 Thread Jake McGraw
See: http://www.odesk.com/blog/2008/12/stay-employed-jobs-with-the-least-competition-and-greatest-opportunity/ and: http://www.odesk.com/blog/2008/12/stay-employed-web-developer-skills-in-most-demand-php-ajax-mysql/ Summary: LAMP still in high demand, maybe when all those finance majors decide

Re: [Fwd: [nyphp-talk] Sun/MySQL/PHP Special Presentation - YOU PICK]

2008-10-29 Thread Jake McGraw
+ 1 for Tag system On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 3:16 PM, Tom Sartain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > +1 for Writing Tag Systems as well > > On 10/29/08, Shari Halter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> +1 for Writing Tag systems in PHP/MySQL >> >> >> >> -shari >> >> >>

Re: [nyphp-talk] Blog Posts with Embedded Content

2008-10-13 Thread Jake McGraw
Forget diffs and HTML text, this problem totally ate up all my time at a startup where a JavaScript WYSIWYG editor was the only choice for generating a marked-up document. May I suggest Markdown [1,2] + the Showdown preview panel [3]. Markdown is a very light syntax for generating HTML documents, S

Re: [nyphp-talk] Cloud Hosting Recommendations for Linux/Apache/PHP

2008-09-12 Thread Jake McGraw
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 8:24 AM, Randal Rust <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone have any recommendations or advice regarding a cloud > hosting solution? > Check out this article about Heavy.com switching to Amazon EC2: http://www.mikebrittain.com/blog/2008/07/19/web-hosting-on-ec2/ - jake

Re: [nyphp-talk] connecting external site to craigslist for auto posting?

2008-08-15 Thread Jake McGraw
>From craigslist TOS: You agree not to post, email, or otherwise make available Content: ... y) use any form of automated device or computer program that enables the submission of postings on craigslist without each posting being manually entered by the author thereof (an "automated posting dev

Re: [nyphp-talk] [OT] notebook recommendations - time to retire the Thinkpad t42p... anyone know Lenovo's t61p?

2008-08-08 Thread Jake McGraw
On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 7:38 PM, tedd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 4:14 PM -0700 8/8/08, inforequest wrote: > >> No, I'm not going to switch to a mac. Thanks. > > But with the Intel based macs, you can choose the OS you'd like to use. - jake > >> > We all have to learn for ourselves. :-) > >

Re: [nyphp-talk] CSS problem???

2008-07-30 Thread Jake McGraw
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 9:03 AM, BAS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > PaulCheung wrote: > >> Hi >> I am at the stage where I need to put style to the site and am using CSS. >> with Firefox, Opera, Internet Explorer and Safari to test for browser >> compatibility. What I find puzzling is there seems t

Re: [nyphp-talk] Change in magic method + reference behavior?

2008-07-20 Thread Jake McGraw
On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 11:55 PM, Michael B Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 10:55 PM, Jake McGraw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> > 1. You're using "Call-time pass-by-reference" by marking your return > >> &g

Re: [nyphp-talk] Change in magic method + reference behavior?

2008-07-19 Thread Jake McGraw
> > 1. You're using "Call-time pass-by-reference" by marking your return > value > > with an ampersand, try changing your code to this: > > > > public function __get($field) { > > return &$this->_data[$field]; > > } > > But I don't want the default behavior to be to return a reference. > > Mike >

Re: [nyphp-talk] Change in magic method + reference behavior?

2008-07-19 Thread Jake McGraw
On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 5:36 PM, Michael B Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a class that implements __get which retrieves the named > attribute from a $this->_data array. In the past I believe I was able > to do the following: > > $a = &$this->a; Could you post the code for your __get

Re: [nyphp-talk] ereg_replace() behavior

2008-07-10 Thread Jake McGraw
> echo ereg_replace('__([:alnum:]{1})',strtoupper('\1'),'ss__name'); Problem: strtoupper('\1') = '\1' => 'ssname' Problem: str_repeat('\1',5) = '\1\1\1\1\1' => 'ssname' Solution: preg_replace_callback('/__([a-z])/i', create_function('$a', 'return strtoupper($a);'), 'ss__name'); Check out

Re: [nyphp-talk] GUI for SOAP/WSDL

2008-06-03 Thread Jake McGraw
After being the source of you inspiration, why don't I provide your solution: http://sspcatalog.sap.com/wsnavigator/jsps/explorer/enterwsdl_main.jsp Try searching "wsdl navigator" for other solutions, this is the best I could find. - jake On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 3:48 PM, Allen Shaw <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: [nyphp-talk] need help about cms design

2008-06-03 Thread Jake McGraw
> how to design the database for cms and how to start coding for this is right up there with this gem http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni_rAamVP2s - jake On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 10:46 AM, csnyder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 6:44 AM, David Krings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: [nyphp-talk] Subdomain mod_rewrite

2008-05-09 Thread Jake McGraw
> http://something.domain.com -> rewrite -> http://www.domain.com/something Wouldn't you need to set this up in your virtual hosts file? Something like this: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/vhosts/mass.html - jake On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 4:37 PM, Hans Zaunere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello

Re: [nyphp-talk] Embrace Dynamic PHP

2008-04-25 Thread Jake McGraw
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 9:37 AM, Daniel Convissor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 09:06:54AM -0400, Jake McGraw wrote: > > > > Not necessarily true, secure string interpolation is coming soon: > > > > > http://google-caja.googleco

Re: [nyphp-talk] Embrace Dynamic PHP

2008-04-25 Thread Jake McGraw
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 8:49 AM, Daniel Convissor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 07:34:50PM -0400, Austin Smith wrote: > > > Further, I've long wanted to write a very simple set of flexible helper > > functions for PHP newbies so they don't blow their brains out with things

Re: [nyphp-talk] MySQL - SQL Question

2008-04-22 Thread Jake McGraw
Ah, assuming you don't know the language prior to creating the query, I think you'd use something like: SELECT product.id , product.price , IF (lang_id IS NULL, 'en', lang_id) AS lang_id FROM product LEFT JOIN descriptions ON product.id = descriptions.produc

Re: [nyphp-talk] Greetings

2008-04-22 Thread Jake McGraw
The cookie problem you're having, have you considered using a framework to take the guess work out of when it is appropriate to set a cookie (ie send a header)? Using a consistent method for processing requests and delivering pages will often make the whole issue trivial. I would suggest the Zend

Re: [nyphp-talk] Re: OT: webmaster test

2008-04-17 Thread Jake McGraw
> I know a lot of 20-somethings who need to make a huge payment every > month on their student loans... They're under a lot of pressure to get the > first job that's "good enough"... Taking the risk to find "something > better" could land them in default. As a very recent graduate (2006) I'

Re: [nyphp-talk] Re: Why IT Sucks

2008-04-17 Thread Jake McGraw
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 9:58 AM, Biermann, Gary (02940) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Speaking from the side of the "Evil Ones", and having been one here in > Manhattan for a few years now, I would have to agree with Jake and Jason. > In the last 1.5 years even surprisingly average developers ar

Re: [nyphp-talk] Re: OT: webmaster test

2008-04-17 Thread Jake McGraw
For a great study in the ebbs and flows of an online conversation, check out: http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/000633.html - jake ___ New York PHP Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations O

Re: [nyphp-talk] Why IT Sucks

2008-04-17 Thread Jake McGraw
> No sane engineer would actually choose to be a web developer. Save for the fact that this is where a majority of the growth in software engineering has been happening for the past 8 years. Despite all the whining and moaning, this is where IT is at! During my last job search, LAMP developers w

Re: PHP IDEs [was: Re: [nyphp-talk] OT: webmaster test]

2008-04-16 Thread Jake McGraw
> I don't think Eclipse is great for PHP. I tried several plugins for PHP and > they all gave me just more reason not to consider Eclipse as a PHP IDE. I > don't mean that you can't use it for PHP, but getting decent IntelliSense, > help, and the debugger to work wasn't easy. Or is there a plugin

Re: [nyphp-talk] OT: webmaster test

2008-04-14 Thread Jake McGraw
> p.s. top-posting is nasty. My bad, I was addressing your entire response, should have included more inlines. - jake On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 4:49 PM, Jerry B. Altzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > on 2008-04-14 15:37 Jake McGraw said the following: > > > > I wasn'

Re: [nyphp-talk] OT: webmaster test

2008-04-14 Thread Jake McGraw
http://xkcd.com/378/ I use Eclipse + PDT, guess I'm a newb. - jake On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Ben Sgro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I use emacs > > Matt Juszczak wrote: > > > > > > > > > So I consider myself to be well-versed in *nix/php/mysql/lamp/etc. But I > don't use vi. It isn't my

Re: [nyphp-talk] OT: webmaster test

2008-04-14 Thread Jake McGraw
For all the debate (preaching) that has taken place, I honestly couldn't answer your question without a clearer job description, like what exactly will be the responsibilities of this new hire? - jake On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 1:41 PM, André Pitanga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > H

Re: [nyphp-talk] webmaster test (update)

2008-04-14 Thread Jake McGraw
On man, I should have kept my mouth shut about interviewees rights. ;-P - jake On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 2:28 PM, André Pitanga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > First candidate finished his exam: > > Answer to 7) a= 0.5, b=1 > > I'm not kidding... > > ps. I'm not hating. I'm sharing this with the

Re: [nyphp-talk] OT: webmaster test

2008-04-14 Thread Jake McGraw
st that makes them reconsider their choice to apply (or even showup) by insulting their intelligence. - jake On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 1:59 PM, Jerry B. Altzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > on 2008-04-14 11:58 Jake McGraw said the following: > > > > me = 24 year old with 20 months

Re: [nyphp-talk] OT: webmaster test

2008-04-14 Thread Jake McGraw
nts when you find out what they do in their free time and what interests them. - jake On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 11:07 AM, Jerry B. Altzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > on 2008-04-14 10:24 Jake McGraw said the following: > > > > I'd only keep the last two questions:

Re: [nyphp-talk] OT: webmaster test

2008-04-14 Thread Jake McGraw
This was the first time I'd seen the fizz buzz problem, I like it because it can really show what level a programmer is at in only a couple of lines of code, considering there are so many solutions. - jake On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 10:59 AM, André Pitanga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I think th

Re: [nyphp-talk] OT: webmaster test

2008-04-14 Thread Jake McGraw
I'd only keep the last two questions: 9) Why use Flash in web development? Why not? 10) Why is "separation of style and content" recommended in web development? I think the other questions would be incredibly ineffective in determining the abilities of a possible employee. All of them could be p

Re: [nyphp-talk] CMS - Estimating Hours

2008-04-03 Thread Jake McGraw
Just read a recent review of some open source CMS software, may help in your search: http://www.adobe.com/newsletters/edge/april2008/articles/article4/index.html?trackingid=CAFWA - jake On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 3:11 AM, BAS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kristina Anderson wrote: > > > Also, if you

Re: [nyphp-talk] CMS - Estimating Hours

2008-03-27 Thread Jake McGraw
ore attempting to create anything from stratch. - jake On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 3:49 PM, BAS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jake McGraw wrote: > > Well it really depends... do you have experience doing any of this: > > > > 4. Find, install & configure shopping car

Re: [nyphp-talk] CMS - Estimating Hours

2008-03-27 Thread Jake McGraw
Well it really depends... do you have experience doing any of this: 4. Find, install & configure shopping cart a. Product photos b. Product descriptions/details c. Pricing d. Shipping e. Tax f. Create/modify shopping cart templates? (Not sure if this has to be done or if the cart can u

Re: [nyphp-talk] Best way to develop a PHP web system?

2008-02-22 Thread Jake McGraw
Zend components can be used completely independent from the Zend Framework, in your Drupal boot strapper: require_once 'Zend/Loader.php'; function __autoload($class) { if (strpos($class,'Zend')!==FALSE) { Zend_Loader::loadClass($class); } } You can then go to town with Zend in Drupal, or

Re: [nyphp-talk] Re: Best way to develop a PHP web system?

2008-02-22 Thread Jake McGraw
Currently working with Zend Framework, most every framework does what you're talking about, but I like Zend because: a. You can very easily use individual components without loading the entire library b. Your application is organized in a very simple manner c. Zend Studio has Zend Framework built

Re: Meeting Topics (Was [nyphp-talk] Dynamic Form Elements)

2008-02-18 Thread Jake McGraw
Not sure what the process is for getting an official meeting going,,, I'd still like to volunteer my time, I just need to know when. - jake On Feb 15, 2008 9:54 AM, Jake McGraw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Whoops, here is a link: > > jakemcgraw.com/javascript/jquery.pdf >

Re: Meeting Topics (Was [nyphp-talk] Dynamic Form Elements)

2008-02-15 Thread Jake McGraw
Whoops, here is a link: jakemcgraw.com/javascript/jquery.pdf - jake On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 9:43 AM, Jake McGraw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Incase anyone is interested, I've attached a presentation I did on > jQuery about a year ago, this was after only using jQuery for 3

Re: Meeting Topics (Was [nyphp-talk] Dynamic Form Elements)

2008-02-15 Thread Jake McGraw
I'd be willing to give a introduction to jQuery. - jake On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 9:24 AM, Kenneth Downs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm wondering if we might have some meetings that go over some of these > nifty javascript frameworks like dojo and extjs and jquery. > > Edward Potter wrote: >

Re: [nyphp-talk] Dynamic Form Elements

2008-02-01 Thread Jake McGraw
Btw, not to go OT or start a js framework war, I highly recommend jQuery for any DOM manipulation tasks like the one you describe here. - jake On Feb 1, 2008 11:59 AM, Michael B Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2/1/08, Allen Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Michael B Allen wrote: > > > Ba

[nyphp-talk] Secure String Interpolation for JavaScript (highly applicable to PHP)

2008-02-01 Thread Jake McGraw
This should be ported to PHP immediately, once some libraries for SQL,etc have been written, form processing headaches, output headaches, will be a thing of the past: http://google-caja.googlecode.com/svn/changes/mikesamuel/string-interpolation-29-Jan-2008/trunk/src/js/com/google/caja/interp/index

Re: [nyphp-talk] Dynamic Form Elements

2008-02-01 Thread Jake McGraw
I'd create the form normally, with the optional select visible, but the first value of the optional select list stating "Applicable only for value XYZ". Then I'd use JavaScript to hide the optional select list, remove the "Applicable only for value XYZ" and detect an onchange event on the first sel

Re: [nyphp-talk] Templating engines

2008-01-23 Thread Jake McGraw
Another benefit is you (the programmer) have complete control over what variables get passed from the script to the public facing template. Hopefully, you've hired a designer that knows better than to do the following and reveal your db schema to the world: // Debugging echo ""; But if you don't,

Re: [nyphp-talk] Transitioning from Beginner to Intermediate PHP

2008-01-16 Thread Jake McGraw
Couple of suggestions: 1. Really read the documentation available at php.net, it is the best resource available online. At the very least, go through the the Language Reference section (although you can ignore the sections pertaining to PHP4). Additionally, anytime you're doing something with a st

Re: [nyphp-talk] Emails not being received when using mail()

2008-01-15 Thread Jake McGraw
Not to get off the topic of debugging your particular problem, but I've always used SwiftMailer (http://www.swiftmailer.org/), which is all OO and has many tips on correct usage. - jake On Jan 14, 2008 11:15 PM, B.A.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hans Kaspersetz wrote: > >> // build additional h

Re: [nyphp-talk] Namespaces

2008-01-11 Thread Jake McGraw
UDDI is trying to do the same thing (with limited success, I've only looked at their Web Services registration)... check out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Description_Discovery_and_Integration Additionally, if you'd like to release software that won't have a namespace conflict, purchase

Re: [nyphp-talk] WYSIWYG editors

2008-01-09 Thread Jake McGraw
Recently did a pretty exhaustive survey of JavaScript HTML editors, I found that YUI-editor to be the best and most actively developed, I'm not sure if it natively supports Word Cut + Paste though: http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/editor/ A note: All JS HTML editors have different quirks for each b

Re: [nyphp-talk] version mismatch - MySQL vs. PHP MySQL client

2008-01-06 Thread Jake McGraw
I've had the same issue, and it has caused issues with mysqli, but only once, specifically when I tried to use the "SUM" command... if you can fix this and get the library in sync with the server I'd do it. - jake On Jan 6, 2008 1:48 PM, Rob Marscher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > While it should

Re: [nyphp-talk] XML to JSON?

2008-01-04 Thread Jake McGraw
Check out: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-xml2jsonphp/ On Jan 4, 2008 12:55 PM, Rahmin Pavlovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone know of a clean way to covert XML directly to JSON? > > I'm currently using SimpleXMLElement to convert the tree to JSON, so I'm > wondering i

Re: [nyphp-talk] Why do "cool kids" choose PHP to build websites instead of Java

2008-01-03 Thread Jake McGraw
I believe it was my Uncle Ben who once said "With great power comes great responsibility." PHP does things in a manner different than C or Java or Python or etc etc etc (that is why it is called PHP). There are features that some programmers believe are shortcomings, there are shortcomings that som

Re: [nyphp-talk] Time Card / Scheduling Open Source Package

2008-01-02 Thread Jake McGraw
Sounds pretty specific, how do you plan on utilizing PHP? Certainly not for interfacing with the card reading hardware, perhaps providing a web based system for administrators? As far as I know, the client side software should be provided with whatever hardware has been purchased (card readers, etc

Re: [nyphp-talk] Why do "cool kids" choose PHP to build websites instead of Java

2008-01-02 Thread Jake McGraw
util." there are thousands of other "collection" classes out there. Nearly of the functionality provided by this mass of classes is available in php's 'Array()' type. And php does it faster! - jake On Jan 2, 2008 12:26 PM, Tim Gales <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: [nyphp-talk] Why do "cool kids" choose PHP to build websites instead of Java

2008-01-02 Thread Jake McGraw
Pure flame-bait and total non-article used to drive traffic to sys-con.com. Not worth a glance IMO. - jake On Jan 2, 2008 11:11 AM, Tim Gales < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thought this might be of interest: > http://php.sys-con.com/read/457324.htm > > James Anderson writes (in his response to th

Re: [nyphp-talk] upload image to the mysql and then display image on web page

2007-12-17 Thread Jake McGraw
The php.net site on this is pretty good: http://us3.php.net/manual/en/features.file-upload.php I'm going to assume that was the missing piece in the puzzle for you, otherwise you'll have quite a bit to read about interfacing with a MySQL database and coming up with a schema to represent the data

Re: [nyphp-talk] Managing form data with PHP

2007-12-11 Thread Jake McGraw
Smarty, Smarty, Smarty. smarty.php.net. Smarty Template File: Error "log" at the top of the page could look like this: {foreach from=$errors key=field item=message} {$field} : {$message.text} {/foreach} Each field label could be marked up to include the above error: Full Name: Note that th

Re: [nyphp-talk] Help with a self:: ish problem

2007-12-06 Thread Jake McGraw
Have you tried using a callback? If the function name passed to do_action is declared within the current object you should be able to perform the following: call_user_func($this,'update'); Check out the section on callbacks: http://us.php.net/callback and the function call_user_func: http://u

Re: [nyphp-talk] [ANNOUNCE] Blog on Databases

2007-12-03 Thread Jake McGraw
by row there is a specific delimiter, an > endline. That means it is trivial to parse it into > insert statements on a database. > > Why not only follow along with Ken's tutorial, but > create a database on your home computer and build the > sample one table database. > >

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