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Friday, August 09, 2002

A $3,000,000 in Revenue Open Source Company (for 2001) Holy Bat Crap!  Who Knew? ... The company counted about $3 million in revenue in 2001 and expects to increase that to $9 million this year, Pike said. Next year, it is aiming to reach $20 million. To meet these goals, ActiveState will hire new staff to expand its work force to 60 or 64 by the end of this year and to 120 by next year. http://news.com.com/2100-1001-949122.html Now ActiveState does have a proprietary side to it with Komodo, etc, but still this company is a real part of the Open Source community and even contributes back.  And, in case you missed my earlier article, Komodo, their new IDE based on the Mozilla Gecko rendering engine, looked fantastic when I got a demo at OSCON.  Way to Go Guys!!!! 4:34:08 PM  Google It!  comment []   IM Me About This

Being an Expatriate Living Abroad: Why? With a name like Johnson, you might have guess that I don't have much in the way of ethnicity (or not, who knows....).  Anyway, I'm basically a dyed-in-the-wool American although I do try hard not to be the typical Ugly American when I travel.  I'd never really understood the whole expatriate live abroad thing until these two things: Spending time in Northern Italy with Paolo.  My word -- Gorizia where we were is just beautiful and Venice is beyond belief.  Partial set of photos.  (If you need a higher res version of any photo, email me and I'll get it to you). Reading this essay by Joe Friend.  He summed up nicely why you might want to live abroad.  Good for you Joe !!!, Good for you. Thanks to Guy K. Haas for edits on this blog (as always). 6:33:55 AM  Google It!  comment []   IM Me About This

PHPLarge :: FuzzyOffice :: 000 - Genesis Well, all I have to say is that you really have to blame Alex for this series of articles / stories / essays / diatribes / fill in potentially derogatory statement here.  Let me explain.  Alex is also known as www.nosuch.org.  Yesterday he popped into my IM space with a highly reasonable request.  And we began chatting, discovered we have more in common than one would have suspected and then he made the responsible statement: mrnosuch (08:57:04 AM): But my exp. is limited, and I'm just getting my head around the changes in 4.2. mrnosuch (08:57:15 AM): I want to make sure I do things the "right way" (i.e. the secure way). fuzzygroup (08:57:21 AM): Oh. 4.2. ACK FOO. fuzzygroup (08:57:22 AM): http://www.fuzzygroup.net/products/fuzzyoffice/ mrnosuch (08:57:29 AM): Unforunately oodles of code examples and writings don't address it. mrnosuch (08:57:45 AM): Well, if you have existing code, yeah, it can be a headache. fuzzygroup (08:57:53 AM): Oh totally. mrnosuch (08:57:57 AM): I don't have a lot, luckily, and I'd rather make sure I do things right going forward. fuzzygroup (08:58:03 AM): do you control your php.ini ? Ah. Nvr mind. mrnosuch (08:58:20 AM): Yeah, I do. But I actually don't use much PHP now. mrnosuch (08:58:30 AM): The comment system, the glossary, cheap hacks. fuzzygroup (08:58:38 AM): Ah. fuzzygroup (08:58:43 AM): It's good for hacks too mrnosuch (08:58:53 AM): But as I get a bit more clever, I want to be clever the RIGHT way. fuzzygroup (08:58:59 AM): Yup. mrnosuch (08:59:04 AM): And very little example code does it the new right way. mrnosuch (08:59:11 AM): Being a coder, I learn best by example. fuzzygroup (08:59:17 AM): I strongly discourage the php and html intermizxing that is so common mrnosuch (08:59:28 AM): <- whistles innocently. fuzzygroup (08:59:40 AM): lol mrnosuch (08:59:44 AM): I agree, though. fuzzygroup (08:59:52 AM): Almost all my stuff starts with switch($action) these days fuzzygroup (08:59:59 AM): and when $action is null it goes to default: fuzzygroup (09:00:17 AM): which just falls thru to a template driven page mrnosuch (09:00:23 AM): Makes sense. fuzzygroup (09:00:27 AM): it seems to be a _nice_ approach. mrnosuch (09:00:42 AM): It's frustrating that so little out there really talks about full web app development in PHP. So you see people -- it's all Alex's fault.  He prodded me.  He placed the idea in my head.  And then when I found out that he's about to get married to Connie, my sole thought was "It's a damn virtual wedding present".  (Sure it won't do anything for Connie but do the place settings you get in a wedding ever do anything for the man?  This is something that Alex even asked for!  I mean a wedding present that a man actually picked out himself.  How strange).  And, with that introduction, I give you ... Building a Large Scale Application in PHP: FuzzyOffice: Genesis ==> Read Story <== 5:45:13 AM  Google It!  comment []   IM Me About This