Author: Armando Padilla

Tuesday lunch talk.

Ive had a neighbor on mind for some time now. I remember walking up to his house situated in the back of my friends house and knocking on the door and asking if he needed any help with his groceries or needed anything at all. Sure it mind sound like we, my friend and I,

Who Says

Yeap. So i havent had anything to write about lately. I think im recuperating from writing the book. I guess a recap is in order. Im still working at Yahoo and still working in the Mobile team. My boss quit so did the PM for my specific group so I was pretty upset I was

Folded hands on lap.

When i picture my grandparents this picture, a picture that my sister sent me a few weeks ago, stands out. In a single snap shot you get a feel for their personalities. From left to right, My dads mom, my mom’s mom, and my mom’s dad. My grand father on my dad’s side is missing

Callate Cabron!

I was sleeping at my parents house this weekend when a loud 4-5 year old cries for god knows what tore through the night. I woke, apparently 5 minutes into it (im assuming), to his cries and my utter contempt for this kid that i had never met. The kid continued to cry non stop,

Benchmarking Zend Framework 1.8.4

About 2 months ago I sat in on a PHP performance session at work taught by non other than Rasmus Lerdof.  Aside from creating PHP he had some really neat stuff to talk about concerning performance.  Most of the presentation came from the php.net site, talks.php.net. Take a look at the talks when you have

Zend Framework 1.8 Released

Last week ZF 1.8 was released and this weekend I spent the better part of it looking through the documentation and over a few of the items released within this package. A few standouts include: Zend_Tool Zend_Tag The Cloud computing components For more information heres the complete list of features released.  I also had a