Miscellaneous
Original post provide by Chris ShiflettI haven’t been blogging much lately, and for the first time since I started this blog, I’ve only managed one post all month.
There has been plenty to talk about, but I’ve been too busy with both work and play to keep up. I’ll try to recap the previous month (roughly in chronological order) for posterity.
- I saw Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová at Radio City Music Hall, which was possibly the best show I’ve ever seen. (It’s tough to beat the Indigo Girls, though.) If you live in NY, and you’re not going to ZendCon, you can see them in Central Park in September.
- I went to Chicago for php|tek, easily one the best PHP conferences each year. I got to celebrate my birthday at Shoeless Joe’s while watching the Champions League final, and I ended the day with a brief stint as a rock star.
- My wife and I took a canoe down the Delaware River with some friends, and we camped on a small island. I rediscovered my hatred for stinging nettles.
- I gave a keynote at the DC PHP Conference on the intersection of security and user experience. As with most new talks, it was unpolished, but I’ll be giving an updated, polished version of it at ZendCon. (See you there?)
- I enjoyed the Telectroscope, despite not managing to convince Matt, Lorna, or anyone else to meet up on the London side. Luckily, I managed to convince a few people that it was real, so that was fun.
It was conveniently located a few steps away from OmniTI NY, and I took some photos while it was here. - The Euro Cup started.
- My blog was featured in Smashing Magazine again, this time for the pretty blockquote and note styles Jon designed.
- Motivated by Andrei, I started the hundred push-ups challenge. This commitment also persuaded me check my various style guides to see whether it’s pushup, push up, or push-up. News spread quickly on Twitter, and there is now a group of PHPers all taking part in the challenge.
- Theo was mentioned on Radar again for his detailed post on Internet traffic spikes.
- I got to witness a colleague’s first encounter with
T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM, which I enjoyed far too much.
I’ll leave you with the PHP anthem from Rasmus. If you’re a Mac user, just enter the following in the terminal:
say -v Good oh PHP ow ow oh PHP ow oh PHP ow ow oh PHP ow oh PHP ow ow oh PHP ow oh PHP ow ow oh PHP ouchie
If you’re not a Mac user, Terry has an MP3.
Sing it with me…
Posted Mon, 30 Jun 2008 23:44:02 GMT in Chris Shiflett’s Blog 
Data Joins Unions
QLogic Achieves Near-Native Fibre Channel I/O Performance On Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Virtualization
QLogic announced that QLogic and Microsoft achieved performance results that demonstrate near-native transaction performance for a virtualized computing environment. The companies tested storage area network (SAN)-attached, Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V virtual machines and achieved I/O performance that closely matches the 200,000 IOs per second performance native with QLogic 8Gb adapters and Windows Server 2008.
ScaleMP Announces Virtualization Technology For The IBM BladeCenter System
ScaleMP, a provider of virtualization solutions, has announced that vSMP Foundation Standalone, its patent-pending virtualization software, is now available for the IBM BladeCenter HS21 XM blade server. In conjunction with IBM BladeCenter H, ScaleMP claims to enable the aggregation of up to 14 dual-processor blades within an integrated chassis to create a single virtual symmetric multiprocessor (SMP).
Netuitive Announces New Virtualization Management Capabilities
Netuitive Service Analyzer has already earned acclaim for providing the only self-learning and continuously adaptive software for automating BSM. With new capabilities announced, customers can manage the performance of enterprise applications end-to-end, across distributed servers, databases and network systems - that are both physical and virtual.
Cisco Expands Virtualization Across Data Center Portfolio
Continuing to fulfill and expand the Cisco Data Center 3.0 initiative, Cisco announced new products and professional services that will help customers virtualize data centers for greater operational and energy efficiency. The new offerings make the virtual network a highly efficient platform for delivering data center services-accelerating, providing security, and orchestrating application delivery networks, servers, virtualized computing, and storage, while providing greater responsiveness and resource conservation.
More Articles:
Go!Johnny Class Library
It provides several classes that know how to generate different types of basic HTML page elements such as paragraphs, links, forms, images, etc.. The class also provides several other classes that can generate more complex custom page elements like menus, blog entries, Flash players, Google maps, etc..
MyWeather
The class retrieves an RSS feed associated to the searched location with the weather forecast for the following days. The class parses the retrieved RSS feed and returns an associative array with weather report parameters like the location name, temperature, humidity and air pressure.
And Now The Begging
Mithras Capital, which owns a relatively small block of 1.7 million shares of Yahoo and would vote for Icahn's replacement slate in a heartbeat, sent an open letter to Microsoft Thursday asking Steve Ballmer to take Microsoft's 'alternate transaction' directly to Yahoo's stockholders.
Symfony 1.1
Une mise en cache du système de routing pour augmenter les performances. A noter également des améliorations de l'internalisation, des outils de test et une refonte totale de l'utilitaire en ligne de commande. Pour en savoir plus : The wait is over: symfony 1.1 released Documentation d'installation
No-Fail Identity Theft – Live And In Person
He and his team have posed as investigators for the FDIC (among other things), and numerous times have literally been able to walk out the door with pilfered identities. The reason: organizations are typically so focused on online ID theft that they've forgotten how easy it is for a criminal to socially engineer his way into a bank branch or office and physically hack it."Read more of this story at Slashdot.