http://bashar.alfallouji.com Talks around PHP, Computer Science and Stuffs Fri, 14 May 2010 22:51:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The slides of the presentation I gave yesterday are now available on slideshare. Des applications plus intelligentes View more presentations from alfallouji. http://bashar.alfallouji.com/2010/05/14/slides-available-for-talk-around-text-mining/ If you are interested in knowing more about Text-Mining and how to integrate with your (Web) Applications, I am giving a presentation this week at the monthly meeting of PHPQuebec. I will present the core notions related to Text-Mining, we will see some of the existing technologies, their features. The talk ... http://bashar.alfallouji.com/2010/05/10/talks-around-text-mining-technologies-and-how-to-integrate-them-with-your-web-applications/ Recently, I have been bugged by a new translate bar appearing on the top of my Chrome navigator each time I visit a foreign site. That bar would take an extra line space (Very annoying when you are using a netbook) and I had to click each time on the ... http://bashar.alfallouji.com/2010/04/03/annoying-translate-bar-in-chrome/ Thanks to Pierrick, some new minor fixes and enhancements have been added to the PHP autoloadManager. You may find the updated version on github : http://github.com/alfallouji/PHP-Autoload-Manager Documentation has been updated also (Please take a look at the README file). http://bashar.alfallouji.com/2010/03/23/updates-for-php-autoload-manager/ Yesterday, the Confoo conference held in Montreal ended. I had the chance to assist to the three days of the conference. The presentation slides are available here : http://www.confoo.ca/en/download or you can view some of them on Anis blog. Thanks to a very good organization, this conference was a real blast. All went ... http://bashar.alfallouji.com/2010/03/13/confoo-was-a-blast/ So, again I will talk about Singleton and why you should be carefull with them. Everytime I think or discuss singleton the following things come in to my mind : - Global State; - Hard to test (refer to unit test post); - Singletonite (I see Singletons everywhere); - Violating the Single Responsibility Rule. I ... http://bashar.alfallouji.com/2010/03/13/other-problems-with-singleton/ This is definitely not PHP or IT related but is worth talking about :) The com department of the UQAM (Universite du Quebec a Montreal - Canada) has done an awesome and incredibly popular lipdub video. This LipDub has been produced during the integration week of UQAM with 172 communication ... http://bashar.alfallouji.com/2009/10/03/com-uqam-2009-lipdub-i-gotta-feeling/ Once again, Thanks Google for their tech talks. Here is a video from Steve Souders named "Life's Too Short - Write Fast Code". This video talks about how to write efficient code and discuss speed optimizations techniques in Web programing. Steve works at Google on web performance and open source initiatives. His ... http://bashar.alfallouji.com/2009/09/11/write-better-code/ Here is a very interesting video from Linus Torvalds on Git. He emphasizes on the importance and added value for companies to use decentralized source control. You better listen to this video or you just may end up stupid and ugly :) http://bashar.alfallouji.com/2009/09/10/git-or-why-should-we-use-decentralized-source-control/ If you ever worked in a software company, you most likely heard once someone saying "Hey, we can't do this, because this doesn't scale!" I believe "Scalability" must be on the top 10 list of the "buzz words" most used in the software industry. It is usually considerated as a killing argument ... http://bashar.alfallouji.com/2009/08/10/sorry-cant-do-this-because-it-doesnt-scale/