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Playing sound on a Firefox extension

Over the long break, I had forgotten about a small part of a project that I had to complete by Monday ... happens. It involved creating a firefox extension that played a "cha-ching" (cash register) sound when a button was clicked. After thinking to myself .... "The last time I added sound to an internet based application was in 1995 ...

It's a Friday evening web launch!

With great content management systems ... comes a perfect website

APIs make applications happy

An API (or application programming interface for those acronym junkies) is defined on Wikipedia: An application programming interface (API) is a set of functions, procedures, methods, classes or protocols that an operating system, library or service provides to support requests made by computer programs.

Why open-source is not an alternative anymore

"Open source technology is far from weird or different. The open source model allows the ability to understand a solution down to its core and modify it if it doesn't fit the business need. Collaboration, contributions and dedication all allow for true innovation that is well above the norm. Simply put, the term "alternative" paints a picture that a company may be "going out in a limb" if they choose open-source."

Zend Framework is our PHP standard

Zend Framework is a PHP application framework. It is made up of components that are commonly used in web development. By utilizing Zend Framework, we can design and deploy applications faster.

A little benchmarking for all

I've included a small micro benchmarking class for some simple script benchmarks. It allows for multiple profiles so you can track the time of more than one section of code at once. It's simple, all you do is create an instance and call the start/stop methods as needed. It records the micro time values in an array for later retrieval. You now have a small, simple and easy to use class to help you work out those bottlenecks in your code. Go forth young programmers, write the fastest code you can!

A WRONG pitch for the "enterprise" minded

NEWS FLASH! Open source technologies run our daily lives! I've given many demos taking on the role as an engineer, an advocate of open-source and selling my business. I have to say that most times, I am trying to "prove" that open-source has a place in the enterprise B2B market. More times than not, I find myself attempting to sell the notion that a "freely available" product can work harder, faster and better that some commercial solution. This situation happens even if it isn't directly relavent to the solution I'm there to pitch or demo. In most cases, my jovial "community of experts" approach comes across as what most sales folks would call a "tap dance". I was wrong in doing that, in fact, I was way off base ...

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