Posted in Business, Technology, Web 2.0 on Apr 30th, 2008 No Comments »
My time at Overstock.com is over…thankfully. I have been looking to make a move for some time anyway, but I didn’t want to pull the rug out from under them. Ironically, that’s exactly what they ended up doing to me, so let this be a lesson to all employees everywhere: there is no such thing [...]
Posted in Business, PHP, Technology, Web 2.0 on Apr 18th, 2008 No Comments »
In our first battle, we were simply trying to understand what needed to happen and where in order to produce a valid authenticated user. Really we didn’t even get that far; we simply identified how the modular authentication system of phpBB3 is supposed to work. We really didn’t get into the nitty-gritty of phpBB’s execution. [...]
Posted in Business, PHP, Technology, Web 2.0 on Apr 14th, 2008 1 Comment »
As I mentioned in the introductory post, the first big battle to win against phpBB3 is understanding the execution path that is followed for simple operations like presenting the forum lists, login screens, etc. Without question, the bulk of time and trouble was related to this. Again, credit to Zend for making it possible to [...]
Posted in Business, PHP, Technology, Web 2.0 on Apr 3rd, 2008 No Comments »
My current consulting gig is with for one of the largest retailers on the web, Overstock.com. The company is aggressively seeking to leverage social media and networking to improve attention and retention to their site–just like all companies that actually understand where the attention of the masses is at this particular moment in history. I [...]