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2010

February

• We’re the Stupid Ones: Facebook, Google, and Our Failure as Developers

• Elizabeth Naramore Joins the Spaz Team

January

• Ron Devera Joins the Spaz Team

2009

December

• An Open Source Milestone: Spaz webOS 1.0

October

• ZendCon 09: PHP, JavaScript, and RIAs, Oh My!

• Codeworks 09 talks

July

• Results of Spaz webOS Pricing Survey

• The Spaz Project Statement of Purpose

• AIR, Titanium and webOS: 10 Things You Can’t Do in A Browser

• Spaz 0.5.0 out now

June

• Spaz Comes to the Palm® Pre™: How You Can Be Part of It

April

• Searchatron, Titanium, and Funding Open-Source Development

March

• Why Spaz isn’t “signed”

• Security for the Social Set at SXSW - A Conversation

• Tech Journalism and Cash Money

February

• Change is coming to Spaz

2008

December

• PHP Advent 2008 Post: JSON is Everybody’s Friend

November

• The Funkatron.com PHPMAX 2008 US Tour

October

• Safely parsing JSON in JavaScript

September

• Slides and code from my ZendCon08 talk on AIR+PHP

August

• The ugly side of developing AIR HTML apps

• Let’s make SXSWi 2009 suck less!

• Spaz gets Twitpic, Ping.fm, Identi.ca support

July

• Slides from OSCON 2008 PHPSecInfo talk

• PHPSecInfo talk at OSCON 2008

June

• Give me your money, suckers

• PHP Job Opening at Purdue

• Google App Engine from a PHP developer’s perspective

• Slides from php|tek 2008

April

• Encouraging steps towards security in Wordpress 2.5

March

• Zend Studio for Eclipse and SFTPDrive not on speaking terms

• Notes on SXSW2008

• Notes on ExpressionEngine 2.0 Preview at SXSW

February

• New Article on Inspekt at C7Y

• This week in search terms

• What I’m looking forward to in PHP6

January

• Inspekt 0.3 now available

• Why PHP Rocks

2007

December

• Assumptions and Mac browser share

• Funcaday.com, or, Paul Reinheimer threatens me with physical violence

• Code simplicity

• php|tek, AIR dev and PHPSecInfo

November

• Slides from DC PHP

October

• Spaz 0.3.0 available; now with screencast action

• Help Derek Allard with his open source licensing concerns

• Interview on ArsTechnica about Spaz

• Spaz Wins Best HTML Community App in Adobe AIR Developer Derby

September

• PHP|Works 2007: Presentations and Thoughts

• Spaz wins “Best AIR-based AJAX app” at Lunch2.0@AdobeSF

• Giving Two Talks at php|works Atlanta this week

• Spaz.AIR 0.2.0 Now Available

• Spaz Theme Development Template Now Available

August

• Bees tell me how people get to my web site

• Comment of the week

• The Funkatron.com Guide to php|works Atlanta

• Spaz v0.1.6 now available

• Artists you need to know (vol 1)

• Spaz v0.1.5 now available

• Spaz gets Scobleized

• Spaz.AIR 0.1.4a - bug fix release

• Spaz.AIR 0.1.4 now available

July

• Henry Rollins adjusts my approach to productivity

• What Matt Mullenweg doesn’t know about PHP5, and how it hurts him and his users

• Vintage Computer Festival This Weekend @ Purdue

• Spaz.AIR early alpha screencast

• Going America All Over Your ASS!

• Let’s talk PhpSecInfo at php|works ATL

• New Spaz v0.3.3 available; future plans

June

• New PHP Abstract Podcast on CodeIgniter

• New Spaz & Ars Article

• This is Intelligent Television, fool!

• Listen to my soothing baritone on the PHP Abstract podcast

• Shocker: Beta software contains bugs! To find out more, pay me

• Safari 3.0 Beta and Speed Download: busted

• From the depths of hell, I stab at thee, Wordpress!

• Signs your PHP needs refactoring

• New Inspekt Build Available

May

• Wordpress: Quality You Can Taste

• dot.lame

• Eating your own dog food

• Presentation Audience Etiquette

• Inspekt Project funded by OWASP

• I’ll be in Chicago this week for php|tek 2007

• Some Info and Opinion on JavaFX

• Download Golgo 13 as DRM-free MP3s

• Just watched this week’s Sopranos

April

• I’m interviewed on the Pro::PHP Podcast

• Review of Shiira 2.0

• Web designers and developers: Take the 2007 Web Design Survey

• Fun at ye olde train yard

• Quote of the Day

• Making Light: Moderation isn’t rocket science

• Hey hey, look who’s on Virb!

• The PHP App Insecurity Top 20

• And some perspective

• Poop poop poop!!!

• Griffin Rocks!

• What are your chances of getting audited by the IRS?

• Pretty Mouse

• Screw Myspace, I’m down with Virb

• MySpace Sucks as a Social Tool

• Buy Golgo 13 on Amazon

• What’s wrong with this job posting?

• PHPSecInfo v0.2.1 now available

• Not going to OSCON this year

• I heart PostgreSQL

March

• Determining if a function is *really* available in PHP

• Spaz multi-user tease screenshots

• Gmail Keyboard Shortcut Cheatsheet

• Presentations

• Hobo with a Shotgun

• The Power (and Peril) of Praising Your Kids—New York Magazine

• Audio from PHPSecInfo presentation

• Slides from PHPSecInfo presentation

• Welcome back, 1997;  Stroggos is calling

• The best way to christen the new camera

• So what is the state of secure development in PHP?

• The Zend Framework and It’s Influence on Secure PHP Development

• Using Beagle with web sites?

• Now what am I supposed to do with this?

• Just a reminder that skepticism is a good thing

• Now I’ve gone and done it

• Kick ass

• Funkatron Radio Show 2007-03-03

• Fun for the whole family

• I do love those donuts

• Zend_Environment’s Security Module In Action

February

• Clearly We Don’t Have Enough To Do

• PHPSecInfo v0.2 now available

• Spaz v0.2 out

• Zend_Environment_Security and its relation to PhpSecInfo

• Get On The Twitter Train

• LameBrain - A LAME-based mp3 Encoder and CD Ripper

• Spaz - An Open-Source Twitter Client for Mac OS X, Windows and Linux

• LameBrain Source Code Release

• A little Ruby goes a long way

• We just got our asses kicked, pal!

• A brief respite

• HDTV is here!

• Antibiotic use conclusively linked to bacterial resistance

• Sex Cannon, I still love you

• You can’t do Rails with PHP, and it’s time to get over it

• Best.  News.  Conference.  Ever.

January

• e - TextMate for Windows, and more

• Rounding corners in Illustrator

• Fonts for programming

• Cold

• Out with the old, in with the new

• Three words, baby

• New Celldweller Video

• Web Development Follies

• New Builds of SCPlugin Available, Including Universal Binaries

• As if we needed more evidence that register_globals is bad

• HuhCorp

• Ape diet lowers cholesterol, turns flesh to stone

• Totally awesome

• We Put The *ULTRA* In Editing!

• C64 color palette for Photoshop and Fireworks

• Go Jacqui

• Terry “Mothafucka” Chay

• I think we can see where this is going

• Ben Ramsey needs to help me cheat

• Bug in Zend Studio 5.5’s php.ini

2006

December

• The Oozinator

• “I got a lot of Jewish friends, buh.”

• Barbaro FTW

• PHPSecInfo: New release (0.1.2), new plans

• On Vox: Recent acquisitions (Amazon = good deals)

• How the Internet only pretends to empower us

• 8-bit FTW

• I also saw Wing Commander in the theater…

• I wish I was going out with Justin Timberlake

• I never trusted David Heinemeier Hansson

• On Vox: LEAF

• On Vox: I support you, Jeff

• On Vox: Let us gaze upon the beauty of Rachel Nichols

• On Vox: The Best Pixar Movie

• to spend or not to spend

• The Diary of Frosty the Snowman

• ANTM IS FUCKING BULLSHIT

• Funkatron Radio Show 2006-11-30

November

• I AM HAVING A HEART ATTACK RIGHT NOW

• Love the Framework, not the Creator

• A tip for system administrators

• Going better

• One never knows when the homosexual is about

• Batdance

• Funkatron Radio Show for Nov 9, 2006

• Zend Studio finally a universal binary… mostly

• The Vote Has Been Rocked

• Go Vote

• IE7 Stealth PR Campaign?

October

• Machines Are Us

• Funkatron Radio Show from 10/26/2006

• My Nightmares

• Local News Is The BEST News

• Ben Ramsey Screwed Me

• New PHPSecInfo build out (20061023; v0.1.1)

• Interview at Zend Developer Zone

• Glorious Technology

• PHPSecInfo Launched; Celebrity Status Imminent

• Rabies! or Another Busy Day At Work

• Things not going well for Oakland

• Normally I endorse this kind of thing…

• Philadelphia, I love thee

• Haters

• Secret Reports Dispute White House Optimism

September

• I wish I was a little bit taller, I wish I was a baller….

• A busy Thursday at work

• YOU’RE THE BEST… AROUND! (pt 2)

• For Sale: 2003 Oldsmobile Alero GL 4D

• YOU’RE THE BEST… AROUND!

• Holiday in Cupertino

• You’re bigtime now, Patton!

• He knows how to mould young men

• The Confessional

• Get your prostate on

• Technolust - media edition

• Thank you, Tom Jackson

• Namaste

• Hot

• Remember His Name

• Hey Baby

• Triumph of the Intellect

• Whoops!

August

• How to recover a lost admin password in Contribute, and a tip for connecting via SFTP

• Spafford On the Use of Lie Detectors by the US Gov’t

• Oh Captain, My Captain

• Where are the feed creation classes for PHP?

• Paul Reinheimer will fuck you up and steal your woman

• I think Bruce Dickinson should feel confident in his job security

• my new motto(s)

• I like baseball fights

• This was not a good idea

• The bandwagon

• Ruby, muthafucka!  Do you speak it???

• Posting via IM is the new black

• Posting from Windows Live Writer

• Totally cool pic of London circa 1949

• What the fuck is this fruity shit?

• This will fuck you up for life

• Interview with Chris Forsythe of Adium and Growl

• Go Mishawaka

• John Clayton is so creepy

• Roy from The Office doing some charity crap

• Digg Sports is pretty cool

• Movin on up!

• Pics of my chubby ass at OSCON

July

• Lance Armstrong eats some pie

• KCacheGrind equivalent for OS X

• “I’m not a terrorist. I did this for my family.”

• Leaving for Portland tomorrow

• Anticipating Flavor of Love

• Help a brother out and Digg this

• Devil’s Crush rocked SO HARD

• Running Symfony on Gentoo PHP5

• It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia

• The likeness is uncanny

• SCPlugin binary for Intel Macs

• I enjoyed this

• CP/M in da haus

• OSCON: PHP Security BOF update

• FLA - Artificial Soldier

• Who Killed Mark Evans?

• Dear boring Fourth of July whiners

June

• Opera 9

• OSCON 2006

• Using PostgreSQL SERIAL keys and PEAR DB sequences properly

• I am a bad person.

• Man, I really dig her too

• Connie, you’ve been drinking, haven’t you?

• Installing a Debian VM using Parallels

• Parallels Desktop is Pretty Awesome

• Here’s a photo post from Flock

• Posting from Flock

• Have you raped a baby?

• Happy Mornings!!!

• The Awesomest Batboy

• I don’t wanna sound like a queer or nothin’, but I think unicorns are kick ass!

• This pretty much rules

• kredit

• This is pretty kickass

• OSCON 2006: Portland Shall Burn

• Oh hell yes

May

• The Japanese Rub It In

• The Japanese Win

• Being helpful is a bad idea

• The Internet is for Fun!

• Speak Irish!

• Juiced.

• Better… Faster…. Stronger…

• OH SNAP

• A child enjoys a gift on Christmas Morn

April

• Oprahsuaded

• Tom Arnold takes out Michael Strahan?

March

• Copying funny stuff makes people think you’re funny

• TV party tonight!

• Ye Newe iMac

• Crack is Bad For You

• Sharon Stone: Teens Should Give More Oral Sex

• I need to Go Jobby!

• Apparently, the Leprechaun has returned to the Hood.  Again.

• Great essay on Myspace and Friendster

• Core Duo Hotness

• Monkey love Amidala!

• I am so excited about this (although I’m clearly a bit behind)

• The Office gets 10 original “webisodes” over the summer

• Begging, vol. 2

• Note to MacNN: Plagarism isn’t cool, and at least link to your sources

• Help a brother out and Digg this

• Harp Daddy

• Ever wonder why local TV treats you like a 4 year old?

• Best support request ever

• Journalism in Michiana

February

• Un-Pimp

• Attention Limeys and Limey-Lovers

• Fuck these damn kids today

• This shit is awesome

• Teach me, Ryan Leaf

• Pale Watch: Day 0

• Thunderbird + IPv6 = No LDAP For You!

• Feel the hate flow through you

• Watch out for that trick knee, Joe

• LA: Home of the Bodybag

• Eat a dick, Gibson and O’Reilly

January

• Yojimbo stores ALMOST anything

• Goodbye Mark

• I love Perry Mason

• Classy.

• The awesome

• The Shield

• Man, I hate football

• Man, I hate football

• Xbox 360 HD DVD Drive Image Leaked

• No life ‘til leather

• No life ‘til leather

• The Sunny Blade Runner

• The Sunny Blade Runner

2005

December

• Binary build of SCPlugin

• Atari 800 XE laptop

• Atari 800 XE laptop

• ahhhhhh

• ahhhhhh

• Duuuuude.

• This seems perfectly normal

• This seems perfectly normal

• The New York Times Legal Aid Society

• Through His Webcam, a Boy Joins a Sordid Online World

• Style vs. Design

• The departure of the hyper-enthusiasts

• Django performance tips

• Performance Tuning PostgreSQL

• The Medical Malpractice Myth

• what the fuck, BEP?

November

• Eat it, bitches!

• The British are Easily Fooled

October

• Times Online: The week Bush got whacked

• SEEEE YOU IN HEEELLLL!

• Handy XSS “cheat-sheet”

• “In search of the One True Layout”

• Apache conf file syntax coloring for nano

• Posting IM conversations is the new black

• And in other news, Jesus and Satan enjoyed lattés together at Starbucks

• Sorry your Grandma died, but Mike Brown was busy eating dinner

• Go Sox!

• PHP PCRE Cheat Sheet

• Thank God 2006 isn’t far away

• Nice statue….

• New shirts at TestTubeTShirts.com

• I totally forgot to post about this

• Serenity Reviews

September

• Serenity

• Man, this exclusive license thing RULES

• Dammit, I need to learn Japanese

• Dear Microsoft,

• .Mac: as usual, fucked up

• Clint fucking loses it

• Windows Vista: The Final Countdown Begins

• *crickets*

• Microsoft Changes How It Builds Software

• Good, Bad, What?

• Bad Behavior

• Hey, aren’t you an unlockable character in Soul Calibur?

• Friend or enemy?

• I’m just a piece of meat!

• Tittyballs

• Good to see that resources are being allocated appropriately

• That explains it: Florida has a lot more electoral votes

• Real-World Web Application Security

• The Buck Stops Here

• “A 21st Century Marie Antoinette”

• AVMA reports “Snowball safe”

• Hey Look.  Buses.

• Help find Snowball

• Has there ever been a more cynical, manipulative administration?  Okay, except Grant’s.

• DHS Answers the Question: ‘Who Dropped The Ball?’

• “Boy, two years makes a difference”

• Harry Shearer: It is So very Much Not New Orleans

• When you make shit up about WMDs to justify your war, the hurricanes win

• “The Federal Response Has Been An Embarrassment”

• Kanye loses it, says what everyone thinks

• Mayor to feds: ‘Get off your asses’

• 1 happier thing, 1 hopeful thing

August

• I win again!

• This is one of those things that will make you cry

• brinkness, guess what CD I found yesterday

• God, I am SOOOOO like everyone else

• Meet your new master

• Guess that golf video didn’t work out for ya

• Interview with John Gruber

• Ars Technica: Editing your digital images without the mystery

• I get laid more than Clint

• A Walk Through The Xbox 360 Evaluation Lab

• MarsEdit and Wordpress 1.5.2

• Damn you technology

• Kali is buxom

• Most Awesome

• Clint and Jacqui kill Mighty Mouse

• Day of Birth

July

• Kick ass

• Update on ATOM support in RSS Viewer for Konfabulator

• We Don’t Have to Be Polite Because We Won

• RSS Viewer for Konfabulator: Beta 6

• Hollow

• A triumph of human intellect

• RSS Viewer widget for Konfabulator: updated

• Yahoo! acquires Konfabulator, gives it away, refunds paid customers

• I think we know who are the true O.G.s

• “The Louganis”

• “42 percent said they would favor impeachment proceedings…”

• Rock n Roll!

• Observations on being outside

• Ow.

• Old skool

• Django gets more documentation

• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

• Good advice

• Agile Web Development with Rails - buy the beta book in PDF now

• “Face up to the truth”

• The super-best comment spam plugin for wordpress ever: Spam Karma

• Absolutely disgusting

• This is too great

June

• This is pretty damn awesome

• Ruby on Rails - maybe not teh suck?

• The greatest web tool ever

• A very annoying Wordpress bug, and a fix

• WordPress 1.5.1.3 Available

• This means war!

• And a follow-up to my Kottke dis

• Kottke completely misses the point

• Gold, jerry!  (again)

• Jesus Hell, when did this happen???

• PHP 5.1’s Killer Feature?

• Like a train wreck

• Camino 0.9 alpha 1 is live!

• Mastering recursive programming

• The Bat Man

• Protect your applications without recoding them???

• Update from Cincinnati

• Game developers react to Intel news

• Macworld: News: REALbasic to be Mac Intel-friendly

• The Bait Car Videos of British Columbia

• Oh Thank God

• No Altivec Emulation in Rosetta

• Dear God

• Where’s your messiah now, Greybeard?

• Macromedia unveils Flash Platform

• Macworld: News: Intel’s Chandrasekher talks Apple

• iCab 3 Beta Web browser released, and it supports HTML4!

• Wez Furlong interviewed for Pro PHP

• rebirth of wxPHP - NuCleuZ blog

• I’m crapping my pants in anticipation!!!

• Now I have a reason to get a dog

• Well, I just shot a load

• Greek Orzo and Grilled Shrimp Salad with Mustard-Dill Vinaigrette

• Gastroenteritis Trivia

• DRM = the new chastity belt?

May

• this would have rocked so much harder

• God dammit, would you answer the question?

• Class

• Thee Musical Baton

• Fabulous Xbox 360 vs PS3 commentary

• Buy My CDs

• Welcome to Arkansas

• Marry Me Mini

• This is pretty awesome

• a simple request

• still sick

• Confessional

April

• Thank God for Mike Raisor

• Apparently I’ve been living on Mars the past two days

• “The New Pope is a Disaster for the World and for the Jews”

• Speech.  Less.

• Jason Kottke updates us on Micropatron funddrive

• Well I’m sold!

• Geek pride

• Best music reviewer ever

• Didn’t this guy used to front Journey?

• How long do you think it will be before they start calling him “Dirty Sanchez?”

• This is the part where I pretend to be a DJ again

• This rules

March

• The Kelsey Grammar Sketch Show

• I bet he smelled more like a sweaty guy in the desert.  But that’s just me.

• kiss my bitter ass

• Close the blinds

• Score

• Sweet Jesus.

• Thanks pr0t

• God, if only.

• Meh (Portland trip update)

February

• This would never happen on The Shield

• Faskinating.

• IBM partnering with PHP

• Picasa 2

• T-Mobile online: Code injection heaven

• New issue of Usability News available

• This is delightful

• Wait, I thought open source magically made software more secure

• Clint, you’re white.

• Chris Shiflett: More on Filtering Input and Escaping Output

• Oh shit.

• Upgraded, bitches

• Corset experts…

• HIV vs Cancer

• Valentine

• And now we wait

• Score!

• Kevin Smith on Degrassi

• This is more wonderful than many things that are wonderful

• Well poop

• So.  Tired.

January

• ugh

• This is just the best thing ever

• Mary Roach

• Now You’re a Man

• I’m scared to put things in my penis

• Another sign of the apocalypse

2004

November

• Hostrocket—the Way to Succeed, and the Way to Suck Eggs

October

• On the new host

• Moving hosts

August

• When good interfaces go crufty

July

• OSCON

• My Computer Goes Down On Me

• Highlights of the weekend

April

• Ye Newe iBook

March

• ONLamp.com: Top Ten Tips to Make Attacker’s Lives Hell

• Patching mnoGoSearch to generate valid XHTML

• Politically Incorrect Blog Buttons

• PHP5 up in yo shit

• Dave Attell Midwest Dates

• OSS OS developers are testy bastards

• PHP 5 Release Candidate 1 Released

• .NET == .GAY

• What Felix said about assuming…

• Validation escapes me

• Useful browser compatibility tool

January

• Trying to email me?

• RSS Viewer 0.3

• New Version of PHP RSS Viewer

• Web-based RSS Viewer app

2003

November

• New Lamebrain mailing list—please re-subscribe!

October

• Back again

August

• MTV VMA SUK IT

• PUNKS NOT DEAD

• Apple does dumb shit too

• New Widget: dropTar

• I’d vote for her…

• RSS Viewer 1.0 Beta 4 now available

• RSS Viewer - multiple feed support sneak peak

• RSS Viewer widget update

• Bug fix for RSS Viewer widget

• RSS Viewer Widget for Konfabulator

• Those look like alien eggs to me

• Updates

June

• LameBrain 0.6.1a Now Available

• LameBrain 0.6.1 Now Available

• Lamebrain 0.6.1p2 tease

• Cam

• Holy Crap

May

• A little reminder

• LameBrain 0.6.0 Now Available

• LAME optimization tests

April

• Remember when Metallica were good?

• LameBrain discussion list

• I’m a moron

• Mozilla screws me again

March

• LameBrain 0.5.2 now available

• I’m still working on LameBrain.  Really!

• “Web host switch,” or “Hostrocket can bite my ass”

• Stepping outside the static

• Thora Birch Wallpaper #2

• OS X browser fun

• LameBrain 0.5.1 (finally!)

• Ya think?

February

• Used CD Rampage

• Thora Birch Wallpaper #1

• Top 10 Atari Arcade Games

• LameBrain 0.5.0 Now Available

• Color terminal for OS X

• LameBrain 0.4.2

• There’s a bad Schwarzenegger pun in this

• Where Art Thou, Mario?

• House Hunting

• LameBrain 0.4.1

• Life is busy

• LameBrain 0.4.0 released

• I’m an anarchic liberal

• LameBrain 0.3.1

• Lame 0.3.0 Official Release

• LameBrain 0.3.0 Debugging Release

January

• LameBrain v0.2.0 released

• Back in business

• Curse thee, Powerbook!

• George likes his chicken spicy!

• LameBrain v0.1.0 released

• Otacon DBForms2 v0.1 released

• Snowman poop

• Those better not be men

• Hey, remember the 80s?

• DBForms2 reaches its first milestone

• Football

• My host eats it

• LameBrain: a LAME frontend for OS X

• Our boys in Iraq

• Random Quote Class

• Fun with L. Ron Hubbard

• Just like a Wop to bring a knife to a gunfight

• I was a troublemaker in school

• For everything there is a season

• Objective C blows

• Fun with sound

• New site design

• Movable Type

• Let’s talk about the weather

• Blog checklist