LAMPlights Personal anecdotes from my experiences using the LAMP stack

30Nov/110

Code Freeze Fun at HauteLook

I wrote a blog post listing some of the things I have been doing during code freeze at HauteLook. HauteLook is hiring developers for PHP, JavaScript and iOS positions. If you live in the Los Angeles area and are interested check out the careers page.

12May/114

managing multiple jQuery promises

The new jQuery 1.5 version has support for promises.  Promises allows code to be dependent on the completion of an asynchronous event.  Promises are most commonly used when making an AJAX request.  I recently had to solve a problem where I was issuing many AJAX requests and wanted to make sure all were completed before moving on to the next task.  To make matters more complicated, I was issuing the requests using jsonp.  Some of the requests were chained from other requests as well.  Trying to track all the promises by individually was becoming a mess.  After speaking with a colleague, I set about creating a function to manage multiple promises.

13Mar/1010

PHP goes functional in version 5.3

It has been said that all languages, over time, implement a dialect of lisp.  PHP appears to be no exception.