I Feel Like a Boring Little Twit

The title of my PHPCon tutorial is "Getting Started with PHP".  Why oh why wasn't I creative like Zak? [_Go_]

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Not too Much Today but ... Wait -- Its the Shaman Automailer

I've (unfortunately) got several errands as well as some deadlines so I'll be on and offline sporadically today.  But, of course, just as I typed that I did a quick Send & Receive and noticed an  email from Pete J who has a new email service that looks pretty cool:

Staying current just got easier

In my line of work, and probably in your's, there are hundreds of web sites that provide information that I need. I don't have time to browse all of these sites, looking for relevant and interesting articles, but that doesn't mean that it isn't a valuable activity. If I could find a way to get all of that information without the legwork, well then that would truly be working smarter.

That's where the Shaman Automailer comes in. Once you sign up, you'll be able to choose from the hundreds of news feeds currently available, and have the latest additions sent to your inbox. These news feeds are from quality news and information sites like CNN, Slashdot, and Webmonkey.

Now you'll be the first one to know about that new article on Slashdot, or that movie review, or that stock tip. You'll get the latest updates from your chosen sites, every hour*. Staying current has never been so easy. [_Go_]

Oh and watch out for your Hosting company upgrading your copy of PHP on you.  This just happened to a friend of mine when I emailed him that his site was down:

As usual it's my host keeping me amused by upgrading to PHP 4.3.0 without warning. Interestingly it seems that before 4.3, PHP didn't check if you had classes where the same function appeared twice. Now it does.

If I was still on a commmercial hosting service (instead of paying top $$$ for RackSpace) then I'd probably write a script which checked the php version (via phpinfo() ) and then alerted me if it ever changed.

 

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Odd Dream

All the PHP folk will know that this is a strange dream -- I was interviewing at a (shudder, moan) Perl company!  And, worse, it was sort of a "write data conversion scripts for food type of scenario".  Not only do I not normally remember dreams but this was realistic down to the level of office layout, color of carpet (yellowish tan), advice I gave, salary, boss, parking, co-wokers and more.  How very, very strange.  Still it wasn't a nightmare.  I could have been dreaming about a job at a Lisp company.  ;-)

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