The Short on JJP

The life of Jayson J. Phillips, Rich Media developer, in short, bite-sized portions.

50 Most Useful PHP Tools

Smashing Magazine has an awesome article regarding some really useful tools for PHP development. Check it out!

byteengine:
Yes we can!

byteengine:

Yes we can!

Now THIS is a Ruby On Rails resource...

quit

Dia - Freeware Flow Charting

About time someone releases a Charting/Diagraming program that doesn’t suck. I might use this for my wireframing for now on… still playing around with it.

Trap Door Looping Water Slide

Bitnami Software Stacks

Stack installs of Rails, Django, Wordpress, Drupal, and other open-source software that doesn’t require you to manually install apache or any other server architecture.

Kinda cool…. sometimes I don’t wanna fuss with apache or mongrel. Works like a charm - OS X, Windows and Linux.

Django | The Web framework for perfectionists with deadlines

I think I may yet learn another language… or attempt to.

877-393...

4-4-4-8!!!!

Because everyone deserves a little extra cash...

This has to to be the #2 craziest crackpot idea EVER…

I think this sums me up quite nicely…

I think this sums me up quite nicely…

apparently Flickr has an uprising on its hands...

who knew a photo site wouldn’t appreciate the addition of video posting?

Alice.org

Teaching computer science in a 3D environment… looks very interesting and cool.

Internet & the Modern Society (Part I)

  • LW: do you ever sit and think how crazy it is that we get paid to type code?
  • LW: and create these things that are completely intangible
  • LW: like you can never touch a website
  • LW: it's a little spark of electricity or whatever on a sealed harddisk
  • jaysonjphillips: but thats not unlike most things in our current society
  • LW: I'm sayin... it's crazy that we spend all this time doing work on (****) that you can't even do (****) with
  • jaysonjphillips: true, the funny thing is
  • jaysonjphillips: trying to understand the world 15 years ago
  • jaysonjphillips: like... we know and remember a world with no prevalent internet
  • jaysonjphillips: but can you imagine a brick-and-mortar amazon?
  • LW: I couldn't imagine building that from scratch
  • jaysonjphillips: the internet is the greatest enabler of modern societies since the telephone
  • LW: you ain't kiddin

New Tumblr Site

Well, since blogging on jaysonjphillips.com doesn’t happen nearly as often as I would like, I have this tumblr up just so I can quick-hit a lot of things I see and experience across the everyday life I live. 

 let’s see how long this keeps up!

-JJP