2008 May Archive at xentek

Monthly Archive for May, 2008

Battling Over the Soul of IT

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on May 26, 2008

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Al Mandel, who helped market the original LaserWriter at Apple and later had several high-level positions at AOL, used to say that the step after ubiquity was invisibility, and that’s where we are headed today with IT, which has become so pervasive that everyone uses it to the point where NOT using it is no longer even an option. The problem is our management of IT hasn’t evolved as quickly as our assimilation of it. We’ll probably still be fighting over who owns IT long after the IT resources, themselves, become effectively no longer ownable, except in our corporate minds.

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What are we building?

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Eric Marden

on May 26, 2008

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Tim O’Reilly, in referring to the “Web 2.0″ Internet operating system:

The key question is what kind of platform we’re collectively building. There is strong evidence that the platform that’s emerging is more like Linux than it is like Windows. That is, no one player is going to own all the pieces.

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PHP Framework Shoot Out

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Eric Marden

on May 25, 2008

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Bonnier Corp, my current employer, allows us to host the Orlando PHP Meet-Up group at our offices. It was recently resurrected after a year or so of lying dormant.

For the month of June we are going to be staging a ‘Code Shoot Out’ between 4 of the most popular development frameworks for PHP: CakePHP, Zend Framework, Symfony, and Code Igniter.

The idea is simple: Each developer, who is already familiar with the framework they are using (in order to remove the learning curve all frameworks have from the equation), will take the same MySQL schema and create the same application with it. This way we the strengths and weaknesses of each framework could be compared in a relative way, instead of absolutely.

If you’re interested in attending, sign up and RSVP as soon as possible, as it is filling up quickly.

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xentek on Twitter

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Eric Marden

on May 25, 2008

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So I finally joined twitter to see what all the fuss was about. And in the time it took me to upload an avatar and fill out my profile (with form posts approaching a minute), I’ve read a blog post about a recent DB crash, and got a ‘too many tweets’ error when loading the home page. Mind you, its 1 am EST.

Oh this is going to be good.