Like most of you know I’ve been interviewing with a few companies lately and during one of the interviews the interviewer expressed something to me that i thought I was the only one thinking. My thought, “wow i totally know what you mean…but i shouldn’t agree with you because you might think im kissing your
So far its a nice sunday afternoon. Im spending the day at my mom/dad house and just reading over the zend framework’s php code. I’ve stumbled across a few items of interest but this one is a bit of a interesting knugget. In line 80 in the Cache.php file this is pointed out ” //
It came to me like a “oh my god” moment today! I know what my thesis will be about. The semantic web. Specifically, Semantic Web Services. This is why i chose the topic to pursue, yea i know the topic is still too broad but at least I have an understanding what im finally doing
A quarter or two ago I took a graduate class where we had to chose a topic that we possibly would enjoy looking into. Ashok and myself spent three months putting together a 58 page report on the Semantic Web. Its current state, current technology, its challenges, and its future. If you do a quick
This is a proof of concept. Im using APC, memcached, and Smarty. Smarty I’ll be leveraging the Smarty front end caching engine for the fictitious application. The smarty engine caches all compiled templates and only updates if it identifies any updates to the page. APC Will be used to store compiled PHP code. Since PHP
Intro I started to brush up on my Ruby on Rails skills over the weekend by building a small web site and looking into the Active Record layer of the framework and wondered if the Zend Framework contained something similar. After looking through the documentation I found the answer, Its offered. What is Active Record?
I’ve read a dozen or so PHP books since i started working with PHP nearly 7+ years ago and last year I sat down and said, “Hey I can write a book too!”. My quest has been a hard one but its coming together. Im writing a Zend Framework book, its 11 chapters long and
This article will cover the Euclidean Formula. I will cover the basic equation for the algorithm, provide running and working examples for both Ruby and PHP5, but will state advantages and disadvantageous of the algorithm after covering every algorithm in the article. Background – Euclidean Algorithm One of the oldest and one of the most
Before diving into the algorithms I would like to step back and take a look at the data we will be analyzing with our examples. Where did the data come from? The data originated from the Netflix.com data mining challenge. The challenge was created by Netflix 2-3 years ago to allowed data mining junkies the
Match.com, Singles.com and Netflix.com and countless other sites out there rely on comparing a group of people to answers users submit on a daily basis. Some like Match.com use a long questioner while others, such as Netflix.com, uses renting habits of a user to determine if a the user might like another product. In a
