I Still Won't Use IIS

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The constant joke about the Microsoft Web Development Technology Summit was that they were spiking the Kool-Aid® with mind control drugs. There is direct evidence to the contrary: There was no Kool-Aid® The drugs were in the baconThey were Beggin'® Strips I love bacon Microsoft is totally amazing and great for open source and doesn't have ...

Detecting Cycles in Tree Structures with PHP

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My Gallery recently had some serious database issues. I had to write some code outside of the Gallery proper to look for database errors. When I went to look for cycles in the tree, I didn't find any handy algorithms out in the wild of the internet, so I wrote something. That produces this output: Found ...

Speakers Five: John VanDyk and Matt Westgate

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These guys wrote the book on Drupal. Maybe I'm just running out of steam, or it's just hard to summarize a summary. There have been hints that they will send a copy of their presentation, in which case I will post it (or link to it) for you.

Speaker Four: Dave Fetterman

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Dave Fetterman is from facebook -- I think I mentioned him in passing before. The presentation thus far has been a shotgun intro to the facebook development process. Exciting words used so far: Sizzle Sugar Topics that he covered, at about this speed: Facebook Platform Technical Capabilities API: The Social Web Service FQL: Facebook-centric query language ...

Speaker Three: John Lam

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A Conversation We Just Had In IRC jmullan: chris: who is this dude? ckdake: some guy The third speaker is actually pretty interesting in that he is talking about Iron Ruby and has a charismatic and energetic delivery. Oh, it's John Lam. I figured it out because he referenced an article by Jon Udell. Ooh, Boo! ...