Unless you have been under a rock, out in the wild trying to find yourself or too enthralled with the fact that Lost is back, then you’ve heard of HipHop PHP.  The twitterverse and blogs have been exploding with what they think of HipHop PHP.

For all of you who haven’t really heard, HipHop was created by Facebook to help them scale…I guess they have a lot of users or something.  Essentially HipHop compiles/translates PHP (script language) into compiled C++.  This makes good speed improvements, decreasing CPU usage.  As a lot of other developers have mentioned, this seems really cool and beneficial.

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I know it’s been a while since my last post, but things at getlegal.com have been quite busy and I changed servers

On to the news.  I will be speaking at confoo.ca in Montreal about Browser Compatibility, titled/inspired by my blog post “Drawing the Line with Browser Compatibility”.  I’m very excited about the opportunity to speak about my career/passion, Web Development.  I recently gave a presentation to the Dallas PHP User Group, “Doctrine Overview”.  I think it went well and was also a good learning experience.

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Wow, it has been too long my friends, June 22nd.  I have decided to share a short rant involving the interaction of designers and developers in the work flow.

I recently read an article on smashing magazine, How to Effectively Communicate with Developers, and I can’t help but feel as the view is heavily skewed.  I have worked with  many great designers, but I have worked with equally amount of bad designers.  I’ve also worked with, seen, many bad developers who really do not posses the skills to take a design to production properly, so I feel your pain designers.  If you want a fullproof tactic to attack the problem, the solution is simple, get the developer inolved earlier.  When I worked in the advertising world here is the common scenario:

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I usually reserve my rants for twitter, but I found this situation pretty interesting.  Not everyone, but a good portion of people use twitter now.  Through the huge popularity of twitter escalated short urls.  Okay, to my situation.

I saw the movie “The Hangover” last night, and it was so funny….I will probably see it 3 times before it comes to DVD.  Since I live my life in constant movie quotes I posted one of the quotes to twitter, “Tigers love pepper…..They hate cinnamon”.  No big deal, but then I received a reply from someone who I do not follow and this person does not follow me.  I check the twitter profile, as I always do, and it seems it is a spam account.  They are advertising some url using a short url, lucky for me I have a short url expander plugin for Firefox.  Their url is http://****vegastrips.com/thehangover.

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I just finished reading an article, Using CSS Frameworks, which is a great read.  I personally do not use any of the listed CSS Frameworks, because a few years ago I developed my own “Framework”.  I’m not trying to be a CSS elitest by using my own framework, because I truly believe a lot of CSS Frameworks are great.  The reason I still utilize my own framework/structure is the reason behind my framework, I develop the way I do to make browser compatibility easier…specifically IE 6.

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