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CakeFest 2010 – Chicago, IL

Andrew Curioso — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 15:39:28 +0000

CakeFest is an annual gathering of CakePHP developers. This year’s conference is being held in Chicago, IL from September 2nd to the 5th.

I will be presenting a talk on API Development. As the conference gets closer I will update this page with outlines, links, downloads, and eventually the final presentation.

You can view the complete schedule or register for the event and find a lot of other useful information on the CafeFest website.

Doors open at CakeFest 2010

Expert PHP and MySQL

Andrew Curioso — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:34:17 +0000

Expert PHP and MySQL is a perfect book for advanced PHP and MySQL programmers who want to take their code to the next level.

Some of the topics covered in the book include:

PHP Design Patterns
Security
Writing PHP Extensions
Multi-tasking with Gearman
Full-text search with Sphinx
Writing MySQL UDFs
Advanced MySQL
Advanced rewrite rules and regular expressions
Building command-line applications
SOAP services
RESTful services
more…

Available in stores this now.
Pick up your copy today on Amazon.com.

What other people are saying:

For once, an “Expert” book where you not only can, but must take the title seriously.
Carsten Pedersen

The techniques discussed in this book [are] used by large sites we all know: Digg, Yahoo, Facebook, YouTube and more.. if its [sic] good for them I believe its [sic] good for you too.
Udi Mosayev

If you wrote a review please contact me and let me know.

MyVBO – The Virtual Business Office

Andrew Curioso — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:45:42 +0000

MyVBO is a business application created by people who know business. It brings all your business needs into one place, including purchasing, stock quotes, Quickbooks, and Twitter.

You can try out myVBO for free at www.myVBO.com.

I joined the myVBO team in March of 2009. My contributions to the project include:

Designed a full featured multi-account Twitter client.
Created versatile multi-environment configuration system.
Designed and developed a versatile cross-platform short-polling and batch processing mechanism for dynamic data updates.
Developed a robust platform API (both REST and RPC) as well as ActionScript 3 consumer client libraries.
Created an extensible authentication system ready to accept users from multiple sources.
Developed a user avatar system.
Also contributed to: user profiles, product search display, news infrastructure, product planning, and user interface design.

Be sure to give it a try if you need a way to keep track of your business online.

Webon

Andrew Curioso — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 20:32:24 +0000

I worked for Lycos on the Webon from the initial planning all the way through several major released versions. The result, a clean and easy to use cloud-based web publishing product. The project is now the preferred page building tool for another Lycos property: Angelfire.

My major contributions to the project include:

Software architecture design and development.
Supporting XML schema design (a super-set of XHTML).
A cutting edge web based rich-text editor in Javascript.
A cutting edge CSS and theme editor as well as easy dynamic theme switching and previewing.
Unified Javascript libraries including dynamic module loading.
OpenSocial implementation.
OpenID integration.
Lycos Analytics — a Google-like web analytics platform.
Organized foosball tournaments.
Significant contributions to media management, module resizing, and project planning.
Additional contributions to blogging module, premium accounts, and user profiles.

What other people are saying:

[Webon] is a simplified and clean way in which to make a multimedia site.
Kristen Nicole – Mashable

… a free site-building service that’s solid, simple, and very usable.
Rafe Needleman – CNET

If you’re interested in starting up a simple web site with virtually no learning curve, Webon looks like a good choice.
Adam Pash – Lifehacker

More coverage:
Killer Startups
BizInformer