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Drupal and the secret of my success

Drupal and the secret of my success

As my tenure on the Drupal Association was concluding, I was asked to give the Keynote for …

Pointers vs References

Pointers vs References

Some languages including C, C++ support pointers. Other languages including C++, Java, Python, …

9 MongoDB 2.6 Drivers Released

9 MongoDB 2.6 Drivers Released

I’m pleased to announce the coordinated release of drivers in 9 languages in preparation for …

Building Modern Web Applications

Building Modern Web Applications

I gave this presentation to a packed house at DevCon5 in NYC July 24th. DevCon5 is a web …

MongoDB and PHP Webinar

MongoDB and PHP Webinar

Workshop on MongoDB and PHP

Getting Started with MongoDB and PHP

Getting Started with MongoDB and PHP

The first in a series of posts on MongoDB and PHP that will both explain why you should use MongoDB and teach you how.

spf13-vim : Steve Francia's Vim Distribution

spf13-vim : Steve Francia's Vim Distribution

spf13-vim is a distribution of vim plugins and resources for Vim, Gvim and MacVim. It is a good …

Getting started with Drupal and MongoDB

Getting started with Drupal and MongoDB

Drupal is the standard in content management systems. MongoDB enables high performance Drupal. Get started with a MongoDB backed Drupal.

MongoDB and PHP, The Book

MongoDB and PHP, The Book

I wrote a book. It is published by O’Reilly, and available now on Amazon, O’Reilly Media and a …

MongoDB, PHP and the Cloud - PHP Cloud Summit 2011

MongoDB, PHP and the Cloud - PHP Cloud Summit 2011

I had the opportunity to present at the PHP Cloud Summit 2011 among some great presenters. This …

MongoDB and PHP at ZendCon 2011

MongoDB and PHP at ZendCon 2011

Presentation given at PHP’s biggest conference, ZendCon 2011. Covers the basics of using …

Creating a Symfony2 Console Command

Creating a Symfony2 Console Command

One of the weaknesses of PHP as a languages has always been it’s ability to write proper …

Creating your own Symfony2 Bundle

Creating your own Symfony2 Bundle

Symfony2 is a great web framework. OpenSky is built on this framework and we are one of the …

Augmenting RDBMS with NoSQL for e-commerce

Augmenting RDBMS with NoSQL for e-commerce

Justin Hileman and I gave a presentation on “Augmenting RDBMS with NoSQL for e-commerce” at the …

Getting Started with Symfony2

Getting Started with Symfony2

In a follow up to my popular post on Symfony2, the open source PHP framework we use at OpenSky, …

On Symfony2

On Symfony2

Symfony2 is the latest brainchild of Fabien Potencier.

MongoDB & Ecommerce : A Perfect Combination

MongoDB & Ecommerce : A Perfect Combination

Last night I gave a presentation on MongoDB & Ecommerce. OpenSky is the first company to …

Ultimate Vim Config

Ultimate Vim Config

I have spent the last few years tweaking and refining my VIM configuration until I had the …

Moving to WordPress

Moving to WordPress

I’ve used Drupal to power my blog since I started it over 2 years ago. It has been a bitter …

Next Gen PHP Frameworks

Next Gen PHP Frameworks

With the release of PHP 5.3, PHP released the most significant capabilities in years. …

Scaling Web Sites (LAMP) : Top Resources

Scaling Web Sites (LAMP) : Top Resources

Luckily it’s 2009 and there have been a bunch of successful websites that have had to deal with …