Yeah, yeah, ZendCon is going on right now and it seems to be going well. I gave a presentation yesterday via iChat at the Zend UnConference 2007 and it was pretty good, except for my computer crashing during the Q&A at the end and thus abruptly severing the connection. Yikes!
But, more importantly, this XKCD comic is making rounds on all database-related blogs. Tom Kyte, Pete Finnigan, and many others are referencing it like it’s going out of style. At least 6 people IMed me this morning telling me about it. If this comic teaches at least one person about SQL injections, we win. Thank you, XKCD! (*appends name to list of possible baby names*)
In other happy news, Chris Jones reports that the OCI8 extension for PHP has just been released with changes to support Oracle Database 11g “Database Resident Connection Pooling” (DRCP). Yay!
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- The Louvre of the Industrial AgeThis morning I had the chance to get a tour of The Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, MI, along with Dale Dougherty, creator of Make: and Makerfaire, and Marc Greuther, the chief curator of the museum. I had expected a museum dedicated to the auto industry, but it's so much more than that. As I wrote in my first stunned... […]Tim O'Reilly
- Augmented reality as etiquette coachAlasdair Allen, author of Programming iPhone Sensors, says real-time facial identification -- the sort that pairs names and faces on the fly -- is closer than you might think. He expands on that topic and a number of others in this video interview. […]Mac Slocum
- Four short links: 30 July 2010The No-Twinkie Database -- These are all the Twinkie Denial Conditions described in my “Bad Game Designer, No Twinkie!” Designer’s Notebook columns. Each one is an egregious design error, although many of them have appeared in otherwise great games. A collection of "don't do this" for app designers. (via waxy) Cloud Privacy Heat Map (Forrester […]Nat Torkington
- Which social gaming companies are hiringDisney's announced purchase of Mountain View gaming startup Playdom, follows on the heels of EA's purchase of London-based Playfish last November. Based on active users, Zynga remains by far the biggest online social gaming company. But what other independent companies are growing? To see which companies are expanding, I used our data warehouse of […]Ben Lorica
- Facebook Mountain ("I wish I knew how to quit you")Facebook is an unstoppable force, rocketing to 500 million users, building a breakout software platform and hardwiring the web with "Like" buttons and single sign-on via Facebook Connect. This piece looks at the reasons why, even in the face of abysmal customer satisfaction levels that rank below the airline industry, the social networking giant […]Mark Sigal
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