http://www.phpcult.com/blog Shamelessly promoting PHP, Myself, and my services Thu, 06 Nov 2008 16:45:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As you read my blog, you'll see I'm a fan of the iPhone, and Apple. I like their products, I like the way they do things. But, there are quite a few things I would like to see changed . The only way to see real change in ... http://www.phpcult.com/blog/competition-is-good-competition-is-great/ The results of the election have proven once again, that the ideals of humanity, know no color, or ethnicity. That there is always light at the end of the tunnel, and that race relations are getting better, things are changing and the younger generation, is ready to take control ... http://www.phpcult.com/blog/qotd-it-is-easier-to-fight-for-ones-principles-than-to-live-up-to-them-alfred-adler/ So, it's been a few months since iPhone 3G came out, and a little over a year that the original jesus revealed itself. After using the phone from the day of launch, here are my thoughts on where Apple can focus on, to make my life easier. Wireless ... http://www.phpcult.com/blog/how-i-would-change-the-iphone/ Computer World has an article about Telecommuting . So, I thought I'd chip in my inflated $0.02. Telecommuting, doesn't mean working from home. This is one of the biggest myths, and truths people will realize over time. What makes me such an expert? I've been telecommuting ... http://www.phpcult.com/blog/another-article-on-telecommuting-the-ugly-the-bad-and-the-good/ So, I was reading an article about how Macs cost twice as much as PCs, and how they're such a rip off, and only gullible consumers buy Macs. I thought, oh no, not again, not the vim vs emacs, linux vs windows troll bait. Anyway, Macs cost a lot ... http://www.phpcult.com/blog/macs-are-expensive-pcs-are-cheap-blah-blah/ (Reposted from Zack Urlocker's blog) Andrii Nikitin, one of the MySQL support engineers located in Ukraine, has asked for help from MySQLers and so I'm sharing this information to the community at large. Andrii's son Ivan, who is 2 1/2, is in need of a bone marrow transplant ... http://www.phpcult.com/blog/andrii-nikitis-son-needs-our-help/ To the KTLA reporter who was amazed by the people standing in line for the iphone. Yes, we know it's just a phone. It's just a phone, for God's sake. Yet, you seem to miss the sad truth about your career. It's a line, for a phone, and you ... http://www.phpcult.com/blog/to-ktla-reporter-re-the-iphone-line-and-your-pathetic-career/ I'm not sure if all recruiters work off some hidden cosmic rhythm, or if they share information.. but I find it amusing, that a bunch of them call me around the same time every month. Anyway, in the past 3-4 months I've been underwhelmed, and frankly offended by these ... http://www.phpcult.com/blog/the-necessary-scum-of-the-it-world-recruiters/ There's a really good paper that has won the first annual Security Best Practices competition held by FIRST (www.first.org ) and the CERT Coordination Center . The paper is from Taiwan, and shows a very interesting methodology of study, and more importantly a means to educate the ... http://www.phpcult.com/blog/social-engineering-a-study/ Dismal. It seems the only thing I got right were: Mobile Me 3G GPS From the perspective of what's next, I guess more information will roll out, I'm a little worried that Mr. Jobs didn't find one small piece critical.. and ... http://www.phpcult.com/blog/my-wwdc-08-score/