Monthly Archives: May 2009

Zend Certified Engineer

By Jacob Allred | Published: May 29, 2009
Today I took the Zend PHP 5 cer­ti­fi­ca­tion exam, and passed! As of writ­ing this post, I am not in the Zend Yel­low Pages yet, so if you click the icon it will make me look like a liar, but trust me, I passed. I’m in the Zend Yel­low Pages, and you can click the [...]
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A Local Vacation

By Jacob Allred | Published: May 28, 2009
I was dri­ving home the other day when my cell phone rang. I didn’t rec­og­nize the num­ber, but I always answer my phone. It was some lady from Colo­nial Cross­ings of Williams­burg call­ing to let me know I won a 2 day/1 night vaca­tion in Williams­burg. I was like, uh, lady, I live in Williamsburg. No you [...]
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Review: Devil May Care

By Jacob Allred | Published: May 27, 2009
Just fin­ished Devil May Care by Sebas­t­ian Faulks. Being a James Bond book, I wasn’t expect­ing a very deep plot and I was not dis­ap­pointed. The entire premise of the book is ridicu­lous, and the “sur­prise” twist at the end was a bit con­trived and unre­al­is­tic (even for a James Bond novel). The action scenes [...]
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PHP Method Overloading: Why?

By Jacob Allred | Published: May 22, 2009
So some peo­ple I know really like to use PHP method over­load­ing. In case you pro­gram in pretty much any lan­guage other than PHP, let me explain what PHP con­sid­ers method over­load­ing using this (very sim­pli­fied) exam­ple code: <?php class bigAnimal{ function __call($name, $arguments){ return $name; } function displayName($name, $arguments){ return $name; } } $animal = new bigAnimal(); $animal->monkey(); $animal->displayName($monkey); ?> So, in PHP, method over­load­ing means that if bigAnimal::monkey() [...]
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Review: Anathem

By Jacob Allred | Published: May 22, 2009
I just fin­ished read­ing Anathem by Neal Stephen­son a few days ago. At 960 pages, this was a pretty hefty book and took a few weeks to read, but the read was well worth it. Anathem is a hard book to describe with­out ruin­ing the read­ing expe­ri­ence. I was for­tu­nate enough to read it while hav­ing absolutely [...]
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Quantcast

By Jacob Allred | Published: May 21, 2009
So a friend at work asked if I knew any­thing about Quant­cast, a web­site demo­graph­ics tool. I had never heard of it, so I pulled up my most pop­u­lar site (Fake Name Gen­er­a­tor) to see if it was accurate. It wasn’t. The traf­fic por­tion of the stats showed my site as get­ting less than 5% of its [...]
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