Andrew Bidochko

Soccer World Cup

Wednesday, June 14

Spain vs Ukraine

LET’S GO “UKES”!

ESPN2, 9AM EST Live!

MySQL Innodb on RedHat Enterprise vs MySQL Innodb on Solaris http://www.sun.com/x64/docs/MySQL-sysbench-benchmark.pdf

Here’s my comment posted in John Musser blog regards Geocoding APIs (response to Google Releases Maps API v2 post).

Speaking about geocoders I may assume that Yahoo! provides the best one. I love it because it works for both US and Canada and it has well engineered communication protocol with multiple geocoding results support. As far as Yahoo! has some restriction to use theirs API in commercial applications and 5K daily limit, I started looking for alternative for Yahoo geocoder…and I have hard time finding good geocoder to feet my needs.
Here’re some issues about existing geocoders. Single country (US or Canada) support only. It’s not a big dial to use 2 separate geocoders for US/Canada addresses but different API and communication protocol drives me crazy. I do not want to have N ‘ifs’ in my code and do not want to have N classes to support API calls for N countries.
It would be great if those companies who provide geocoding API will use the some kind of “standard” API calls and return “standard” result set. That problem was discussed by David Berlind on his StandardsForApiDocumentation session during Mashupcamp (http://www.mashupcamp.com).

Here’s my evolution in geocoders APIs using:
- Started with geocoder.us
- Added geocoder.ca support.
- Switched to Yahoo! Geocoder - stopped using geocoder.us and geocoder.ca
- Right now evaluating ontok http://www.ontok.com/wiki/index.php/Geocode as API for commercial use.

I’m going to coordinate translation of Zend Framework manual into Ukrainian language. If you are creative, fluent in Ukrainian and willing to participate please post in comments.

Remember, customers do not want to business with vendors who hide. If you don’t give me your name and address, don’t expect me to give you my CC number. KISS.

1. Define your goals in global scope.
2. Push one goal into the local scope and try to archive it:
• Stay focused on your goal.
• Do not concentrate all your resources on selected goal.
• Revise methods/resources to achieve your goal.
• Take it easy. Look around for new goal(s) but stay focused on the selected one.
3. Feel free to swap goal between local/global scope.
4. Feel free to add new goal to global scope.
5. Do not jump from the loop.

Less HTML. More XHTML(strict).
Do not ask why.

Google has used the Google Maps API to create a map of planet mars. Google Mars joins the previously released Google Moon. More information is available on ZDNet

Наприкінці минулого тижня Zend зробив перший preview реліз, або скажем бета реліз Zend Framework-у. Andi Gutmans анонсував його тут і так само тут з додатковою інформацією.
Чесно кажучи я мав доступ до сорсів фреймворку раніше від офіційного релізу тож з нетерпінням чекав коли Zend Framework буде доступний “На! Живо” (напевно гадюкіни мають копірайт на ті 2 слова).
В декількох словах хочеться сказати що Zend Framework є дійсно тим чого чекали девелопери. Ясно що їхній фреймоворк не задовільнить всіх на раз, але він дає хороший і якісний! набір компонент для руху вперед.
Я особисто маю деякі плани відносно цього php фреймворку, але нажаль не можу зараз розголошувати всі мої плани.

PS: Як почати роботу з фреймворком? Тут є хороший приклад.

I’m listening David Heinemeier Hansson (37 Signals) podcast from “The Future of Web Apps” conference and I really feel bad about comparison PHP and Ruby on Rails as Devil and Angel.