Hiveminder For Consultants
I was chatting with a friend a few days ago about task management. He has a small consulting shop and uses a simple and effective method for keeping on top of his activities and billable hourse: lists of tasks get written into a small notebook. As they get done, he crosses them out and marks [...]
Good Old Times
Andrei's Good Old Times post got me curious enough to look up my first post that MARC archived for the PHP general list.
The earliest post I spotted was this, but I am pretty sure I was asking stupid questions at least a few weeks before then.
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FrOSCon Call for P(aper|roject)s
Sebastian Bergmann writes:
FrOSCon is a two-day conference on free software and open source, which takes place on 24th and 25th June 2006 at the University of Applied Sciences Bonn-Rhein-Sieg, in St. Augustin near Bonn, Germany.
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Cavity protection?
I was blearily brushing my teeth the other morning and started reading the label on my toothpaste. In large script the package proclaimed, "Cavity Protection."
I wonder how one is supposed to apply the product in order to protect one's cavities - the package has no instructions for this application…
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PHP Functions Essential Reference
Speaking of books, it is getting about time to do a second edition of the PHP Functions Essential Reference.
PHP 5 looms on the horizon, the PHP documentation group is getting closer to agreement on changing the conditions that the docs are developed under and my nice AE at Sams has been very helpful about [...]
The DBMS Reference Guide Project
After some thought, I have decided to host the DBMS Reference Guide project on SourceForge (despite their recent move away from a FOSS DBMS to a proprietary DBMS )
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San Francisco: PHP Con
I will be speaking at the first annual PHP Con in Milbrae (the town that the San Francisco airport dominated :). I have a single session on introductory MySQL and PHP titled "Putting the MP in LAMP" The talk is aimed at new users who want to improve their fundamental programming skills.
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