I am a software developer, web developer, entrepreneur, and an advocate of free/open source software, open standards, and open content. I am the technical director and co-founder of Found Line—a creative firm located in Burlington, Vermont—where I develop standards-based, accessible, and cross-browser compatible web applications.
October 24, 2008 – 8:04 pm
Jason and I (from Found Line) will probably be stopping by Vermont 3.0 on Saturday. We’re not exhibiting but I’m curious to see what it’s all about. If you’re planning on being there then let me know. You can either comment on this blog entry or, if you’re own Twitter, send an @ reply (I […]
October 24, 2008 – 6:52 am
According to the newly posted App Engine Product Roadmap, there are plans to add “support for a new runtime language.” In an email to the Google Apps Small Business Solution Providers mailing list Google had this to say: “Of particular interest, may be payment for additional resource usage and a new runtime language – I […]
October 23, 2008 – 12:49 pm
It seems that there’s some interest in my Zend_Container proposal including possibly using it as part of Zend_Application. I still need to move Zend_Container from “New” to “Ready for Review” but first I need to add some more details to the proposal. I want to talk about some thoughts on Zend_Container that may be helpful […]
October 22, 2008 – 12:04 pm
The Burlington, VT PHP Users Group will be meeting tomorrow night at Bluehouse Group in Richmond. David Walsh of Standards Technology Group (STG) will be giving a demo of STG’s web application. STG will also be providing massive amounts of pizza. Matthew Weier O’Phinney, Software Architect for Zend Framework, will be giving a presentation on […]
October 20, 2008 – 5:48 pm
We recently made the strategic decision to license all software developed by Found Line under the New BSD License. This is a free/open source software license meaning that our clients will have the four freedoms as outlined by the Free Software Foundation. Basically, this means that clients are free “to run, copy, distribute, study, change […]
October 20, 2008 – 7:02 am
We recently launched the updated VSA Arts of Vermont website. Since VSA Arts of Vermont’s mission is to make “the world of the arts accessible to Vermonters of all abilities” it was critical that their new website be accessible. This was a challenge we readily accepted as web accessibility is something we take very seriously. […]
October 13, 2008 – 8:13 am
Peter Saint-Andre (Executive Director of the XMPP Standards Foundation) has pointed out the Free Software Foundation’s recent addition of a “Free software replacement for Skype” to its list of High Priority Free Software Projects: Skype is a proprietary Voice-over-IP program that uses a proprietary protocol. Skype is seducing free software users into using proprietary software, […]
October 7, 2008 – 1:04 pm
Rafael Dohms has posted a good summary of ZendCon ’08. He touches on several topics including performance, testing and code analysis, PHP’s integration with other technologies, Zend Framework, and some interesting things to look forward to in 2009 including Ibuildings’ PHP Center of Expertise.
October 6, 2008 – 11:59 am
We just launched the Orange Mountain/True Soap website. Jason and Dave did a great job on the design and Liz did a fabulous job getting all of the content organized! Although there’s no real functionality at the moment, it’s built using Zend Framework so that we can add features later. There’s an article in the […]
