http://www.kapustabrothers.com Come and read the thoughts about everything and anything from politics to web development. Shaun Farrell has been the founder and creator of kapustabrothers.com since it was registered some time ago. As a web developer, and programmer Shaun brings thought to his posts had takes a stance on a lot of issues. Come and read his thoughts and comments of others. Fri, 01 Aug 2008 16:52:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I have signed up and all my travel plans are set to go to ZendCon08.  This will be my first PHP conference and my first visit out to California.  I'm pretty excited to meet and network with the PHP community and look forward to learning many new things.  See you ... http://www.kapustabrothers.com/2008/08/01/zendcon-2008/ Many PHP developers get confused when using the comparison operators.  Mainly weather to us two equal signs or three.  It really is a simple concept when you understand what it does.  The double equal sign (==) compares two data types which don't have to be in the same type.  So ... http://www.kapustabrothers.com/2008/07/29/php-comparison-operators/ I was over at the AT&T store in the Reston Town Center on Saturday and was looking around at the BlackBerrys.  I saw no advertisements yet for the BlackBerry Bold so I asked the salesman about it.  He told me that the RIM salesman was just in talking to the ... http://www.kapustabrothers.com/2008/07/27/blackberry-bold-coming-to-att/ Last night on ABC News with Charlie Gibson they did a piece on Twitter.com.  It was a pretty good piece but did they get it all wrong?  They marketed the whole twitter service as a customer service platform.  Yes it can be used as that since there are some companies ... http://www.kapustabrothers.com/2008/07/23/abc-tweets-twitter/ Why not just wait for the next train? [youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ht3wNdsZFJ4[/youtube] http://www.kapustabrothers.com/2008/07/21/no-pushing/ I just learned something new today in PHP.  It's the Backtick Operator.  What it does is executes a shell command and captures its output.  You can then store that in a variable for use.  I am pretty sure this is a UNIX command only.  Not sure if this will work ... http://www.kapustabrothers.com/2008/07/11/backtick-operator/ Ok...I have not activated my friendfeed account and was looking to check it out this morning but I am having trouble with the captcha.  Can someone help me figure out what the second word is? http://www.kapustabrothers.com/2008/06/30/2nd-word-help/ After being back more than a month I have finally finished uploading all of the good and worthy to look at photos of my Eastern European trip to flickr . http://www.kapustabrothers.com/2008/06/23/eastern-roads-contiki-trip-pictures/ The new release of CodeIgniter (1.6.2) still doesn't have a date validation function included in the validation class. However, no need to worry. I will show you in a couple easy steps how to add this in. First off let's start by saying that we will validate dates in ... http://www.kapustabrothers.com/2008/06/20/date-validation-with-ci/ Looks like Firefox is not pushing Firefox 3 through the application updater! I just tried it today and it said no update was available. Imagine if they did how many more downloads they would have gotten. http://www.kapustabrothers.com/2008/06/18/no-update-available/