Facebook HipHop and WordPress

By now, the news has hit the street about Facebook’s new PHP pseudo-compiler technology that is looking set to change the PHP world once again. It is called HipHop for PHP.
Here at Emmense, we build on PHP and more specifically, we build on WordPress. The PHP community as a whole continues to innovate the language [...]

PHP Doesn’t Do WordPress and WordPress Doesn’t Do PHP

If there’s one thing I have been consistent on in the past (almost) 6 years of blogging and engaging on the web, it’s that I believe in the mantra “no sacred cows”. In politics, I confound and confuse members of both parties who look at life through sterilized lenses that reflect their party platform. I will often stir up controversy by dragging people into a process of debate that, while respectful, causes them to think and re-think their positions. At least that’s the goal. I am a fiercely independent thinker and though some of my closest friends are on the left, I’ve ruthlessly challenged the parts of the left that I don’t like while supporting the ones I do. I’ve done the same thing with folks on the right. More after the jump.

PHP Twitter version 2 Coming Soon!

Lot’s of people have been using the php-twitter class that we released last year. We’re grateful that so many people have chosen to use the library. However, we also acknowledge that the class has significant shortcoming, not the least has been bugs and, well, things just not working as prescribed.
With that in mind, version 2 [...]

Announcing the Sunlight Labs PHP Library

A few weeks ago, I sat down Clay Johnson, the Director of Sunlight Labs. Sunlight Labs is part of the Sunlight Foundation, an organization that is working toward bringing transparency in government. Sunlight Foundation has been known to fund and support developers and groups that are pushing the edges to keep government honest with themselves [...]