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Damn PHP Coders

Wednesday, October 13th, 2010

As someone who has written and given away way too much PHP code, there are definitely bigger priorities than ensuring your open source PHP code works perfectly, forever. People have lives offline. They have commitments. There is a need to make a living so although I’m still not the biggest PHP fan if I have time I plan to update my mashup codebase but my number one priority as always is finding a well paying job…

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CD Cover Gallery is pretty much done

Thursday, October 7th, 2010

I made my albumCollection.php class versatile enough that it was easy to just crank out an album cover gallery. I spent most of my time in the last 24 hours fixing up the csv file so that the maximum number of album covers can be found in Amazon.com. It still doesn’t find them all and it gets a few wrong, but it does a pretty good job all things considered…

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albumCollection.php worked

Wednesday, October 6th, 2010

I never set out to write this much PHP code. But after seeing what passes for a PHP API to access Amazon Product Information, well I vowed to do a good job on my PHP class, even though it was intended for my own personal use. I had modest goals at the beginning I just wanted to take a list of CDs I own and produce a gallery of album covers…

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Creating an album cover gallery

Tuesday, September 28th, 2010

After my epic and still ongoing battle with PHP and WordPress I decided that I might as well do something at least a little unique and creative with PHP, APIs, RSS, and whatever else…

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Online book sales in China

Sunday, July 30th, 2006

When I interviewed with Amazon.com, one of the questions I asked them was about their Chinese strategy…

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