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IBM forges its new PaaS with Cloud Foundry 30 Jul 2013 | 08:10 am
IBM recently announced an open cloud architecture, based on OpenStack at the Infrastructure-as-a-Service (server, storage, and network) level, and on Cloud Foundry at the Platform-as-a-Service (runtim...
An alternate history of Super Bowl matchups 16 Jan 2013 | 08:05 pm
The NFL’s conference championship (semifinal) games always capture my imagination. In many cases, it’s where the two best teams in the league face off, even if they still move on to face a weak oppone...
Best practices of the daily scrum at NYPHP 28 Aug 2012 | 06:22 pm
Join us tonight at the New York PHP meeting in midtown Manhattan to hear best practices for agile PHP development from Patricia Ju of Hackerbilt. As a former scrum-half, I’m particularly interested in...
Zend on IBM private/public clouds at NYPHP 22 Jun 2012 | 12:31 am
Next Tuesday, June 26th, I’ll be speaking at the New York PHP user group about the project I led to bring the Zend Application Fabric onto IBM’s on-premise private cloud rack, PureSystems, and onto IB...
Predictive analytics for football play outcomes 1 May 2012 | 12:47 am
Inspired by the NFL playoffs in January, I wrote an invention disclosure on how to merge player statistics with current field conditions to yield a visual probability of how a play might turn out. The...
Zend phpcloud.com at NYPHP 27 Mar 2012 | 02:09 am
Tomorrow night we’ll again host Edward Kietlinski at New York PHP. He’ll talk about the latest offerings from Zend to bring your PHP applications to their developer cloud. Soon, you’ll also be able to...
Migrating PHP applications to DB2 9 Mar 2012 | 04:51 am
IBM developerWorks has just published the final part in our series on migrating a PHP application from MySQL to DB2. Learn why to move a PHP application to DB2, how to plan the migration, how to execu...
MongoDB and ZendCon at New York PHP 25 Oct 2011 | 06:19 am
This month we have a double feature at New York PHP. PHP on IBM System i consultant Alan Seiden will give us an update on what transpired at last week’s ZendCon. 10gen MongoDB evangelist Steve Francia...
BlackBerry app for Metro-North schedules 5 May 2011 | 11:08 am
Well, it took just under two years and quite a bit of marketshare loss, but I found some time to release my long promised native BlackBerry application for Metro-North commuter train schedules. You ca...
Use the IBM Cloud to build your PHP apps 15 Mar 2011 | 07:04 am
IBM developerWorks just published an article I wrote about using the Development and Test Cloud to create PHP applications. The tutorial covers some scenarios that make the cloud compelling for PHP de...
