1st Amendment, Meet 4th Amendment: The Gizmodo Search Warrant

Monday, April 26th, 2010

In news that is likely to reverberate around the internet a Gizmodo reporter named Jason Chen was searched by San Mateo police, and relieved of all his computer equipment in an ongoing investigation into the Apple iPhone exclusive and related stories. Gizmodo published those stories last week, creating a minor uproar on the internet.

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Some Soul Searching

Friday, January 29th, 2010

This entry isn’t about PHP. It’s about where those of us who develop for a living, PHP or otherwise, see ourselves in the future.

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Integrating Source Control Into Your Projects

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009

If you ask most developers about source control, they’ll agree that it’s a wise thing to use. They’ll insist that they think it’s important. But yet, why are so many companies out there still not using source control in their projects? A good number of companies that I’ve worked with failed to make use of [...]

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BrandonSavage.net Code of Conduct When Commenting

Tuesday, December 8th, 2009

Last month was a record month, fueled by a front-page story at Reddit. This blog had 27,663 unique visitors with 52,343 visits and 125,164 page views. That’s an astounding amount of support from the PHP community and the programming community at large. Thank you. I’m overwhelmed, and excited that this blog has the ability to [...]

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Five (Good) Lessons The Government Teaches Us About Object-Oriented Programming

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009

As Benjamin Franklin once famously said, “the only two things that are certain in life are death and taxes.” His point, while political, has a good perspective on one of life’s ever-persistent truths: the fact that governments exist in every country, and, largely, they have some of the same benefits and drawbacks everywhere.

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