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Category Archives: PHP

PHP philosophy from Terry Chay

I get really excited when I hear Terry Chay is gonna give a PHP talk.

Last night, he spent nearly 90 minutes in CNET’s Magma conference room ranting about the value of using PHP more than toothpaste. This is the same room Terry organized a Lunch 2.0 at about six months ago.

If you are interested in [...]

geekSessions 1.3: PHP Scalability and Performance

Terry Chay is very good at gathering important people together, so when I heard about the lineup for a PHP-flavored geekSessions, I knew tychay had something to do with it.

As always, The Forbin Group and SF Beta hosted the event at the beautiful City Club atop 255 Sansome. Cindy was a great hostess.

geekSessions 1.3’s panel [...]

You’ve been bluebirded.

Twitter is a Ruby on Rails experiment, and at least once a day I am greeted with these messages:

There is even a website called istwitterdown.com that displays a white background with one word in black text. Ironically, Twitter is down now, and it says, “No”. It does link to an Amazon page where you can [...]

Chay can tag

Not only can he take incredible photos:

Solve any physics equation:

Reverse-engineer any PHP application:

Invade bay area startups and with hundreds of people to eat free lunch:

But the guy can tag like a maniac. Terry Chay will go into your Flickr and add like five or six tags to each photo. I guess that’s a good thing, [...]