Year: 2009

Day in brief

  • Made it to the @phpconference with a somewhat horrible hangover. Waiting for the first session to start. Design patterns that is. #
  • About to waste an hour of my life with @calevans. #ipc #
  • Consequences – shmonsequences. #
  • I think this is probably the best WiFi I ever saw at a conference. Maybe because half of the people are still asleep. #
  • Apparently, I've been using Adapter pattern a lot. I just called it "a wrapper". #ipc09 #
  • Slides from @calevans talk on design patterns are here http://blog.calevans.com/talks/ #ipc09 #
  • RT @amanjain: Monitor international php conference tweets at
    http://www.tracklivetweets.com/ipc.html #ipc09 #ipc #
  • Go to http://boxlunchtraining.com and put your email in. @calevans #ipc09 #
  • Xdebug is awesome. It also does profiling and code coverage stuff. Pluggable into pretty much any IDE. Even has vim plugin. #ipc09 #
  • Is there any Xdebug book in existence? I can't seem to find one. And it looks like one is much needed. #ipc09 #
  • Xdebug Helper addon for Firefox – http://bit.ly/18wj8j #ipc09 #
  • "The popups weren't actually popups, but popunders" @derickr lol #ipc09 #
  • Slides for @derickr 's talk on Xdebug are here – http://derickrethans.nl/talks.php #
  • RT @amanjain: RT @spriebsch: My "Web Application Architecture" slides are online. http://bit.ly/3Whjjl #ipc #
  • Listening to @ralphschindler 's keynote. #
  • RT @r8r: php is the 3rd most used programming language now (@ralphschindler, tiobe programming community index for nov 2009) #ipc09 in reply to r8r #
  • CouchDB, Amazon SimpleDB, mongoDB … stuff to check out. I've looked into CouchDB a bit, but not enough though. #ipc09 #
  • Had excellent lunch at the conference and now back to talks. Continuous integration one for me. #ipc09 #
  • The room is packed. I am sitting on the steps at the back. #ipc09 #
  • Continuous integration talk is extremely slow. Needs more action / numbers / anything… #ipc09 #
  • Copy-paste detecting tools got mentioned. I found this one. http://pmd.sourceforge.net/cpd.html #ipc09 #
  • I don't think test-driven development is as practical as they say.Sometimes it is, sometimes it isn't. #ipc09 #
  • "Test driven development reduces the complexity of the code" – Agreed. #ipc09 #
  • CI solutions: CruiseControl, phpUnderControl, Hudson #
  • This is the first time I hear about Arbit. Need to try it out. #ipc09 #
  • Waiting for the XMPP talk to start. #ipc09 #
  • I got a Google Wave invite! Yay! :) #
  • Listening to Event-driven architectures talk. #ipc09 #
  • The first day of #ipc09 is over. Time well spent. #
  • Stepped into Spanish joint for some food. Looks nice. #
  • What is the root password for these intellibooks they gave us? #ipc09 #
  • OK, the root password is "intellibook". It's written on the paper which came with netbook. It's just all in German. #ipc09 #
  • "intellibook" is the password for "intellibook user.You need to "sudo su -" with intellibook's password and change the root passsword #ipc09 #

Day in brief

  • "On Sundays, the breakfast is served from 7am until 1 pm." I love you, Novotel hotel! #
  • I favorited a YouTube video — tornado destroy a house? http://bit.ly/1wAEbi #
  • Cheched out the expo by the conference. Now for a little city tour. #
  • Chris stepped on a mushroom in the forest. Hi gabby and welcome to Twitter. #
  • I forgot how much I miss autumn. Leaves and such. #
  • What's Hooters? Looks like a nice place for food and beer. #
  • Oh, no! i think we are out of here! #
  • This is so gay! #

Day in brief

  • In queue for check-in at LCA. #
  • Waiting for boarding with beer, sandwich, and chips. #
  • Cashier recognized that I am Russian and offered us shot glasses for vodka, even though we haven't ordered any vodka. #
  • We're on the plane. Hmm, yeah. #
  • In Prague airport, waiting for boarding onto a Frankfurt flight. So far so good. #
  • On the plane yet again. #
  • Good morning, Frankfurt! #
  • Experiencing Frankfurt. After a walking tour we ended up in a beer garden by the dom. Waiting for sauseges and beer. #
  • Back from Frankfurt tour. Waiting for a train to Karlsruhe in about 50 minutes. #
  • Arriving to Karlsruhe. Exhausted. #
  • Cheched in into Novotel hotel. Everything looks awesome. However we are physically dead. Will have some food, a pint and off to sleep. #

Day in brief

Cyprus Mail – the new on-line face of the local newspapers

Cyprus Mail

I’ve noticed that @cyprusmail Twitter account became much more active recently.  Today I followed one of the posted links to read the news article, and was surprised by the new newspaper’s web site.  It is still in beta, but it’s already pretty good!

Finally, there is someone who knows what he (she?) is doing.  Based on Drupal CMS, utilizing Amazon S3 service, integrating with Twitter, Flickr, YouTube and Facebook, featuring proper RSS feed, slick feedback form, and even placeholders for stuff blogs – that’s quite an achievement!

I definitely welcome the new face (and body) of the Cyprus Mail and wish them great success and to keep up the good job.  Now their content is finally matched by its presentation and surrounding functionality.