Interesting Reads
I've been contracting since the beginning of the year and decided to go full-time with it this July and work really started to get the better of me. During the last 2 months, I haven't posted much, but have finally made some room to begin anew. Here are some stories I've read that I haven't had time to post, but that I thought my readers might find interesting:
What's In A GIF -- I recently had to implement multi-frame GIFs in PHP and found this byte by byte guide pretty helpful in understanding how GIFs work.
Parenthood by Jeff Atwood -- Mirrors a lot of my own feelings about being a geek dad.
Google+ Style Buttons -- A great and thorough set of Google+-like buttons and styles to match, if you're into the Google+ look.
High Performance PHP Session Storage at Scale -- Great post about using PHP sessions from a memcache layer rather than from disk, because disk doesn't scale well.
PHP Advent 2011 -- The PHP Advent site is live for 2011, lots of great reads already up, too many to link to them individually.
That's all for now. Hopefully I'll return to my previous blogging schedule after the weekend.