Finally — PHP comes to AppEngine. Interestingly, the agency I work for, Potato, is one of first (or maybe first?) adapters to launch a PHP site on AppEngine.

An oldie, but a goodie. I used to be a huge fan of software that was object oriented just for the sake of being object oriented, but I’ve changed a fair bit in recent years. In the end, a good engineer will use every tool in the box to get the best results — especially when it comes to scale, and that’s why more dynamic languages like JavaScript, Python and Ruby are rising in popularity.

The dust has begun to settle after Google’s announcement that Chrome would soon be using their own divergent fork of WebKit as a rendering engine. Now that things have calmed down a bit, I’ve asked Paul Irish to share some of the Chrome team’s plans for the near future.

I discovered today that as of iOS 6 files can be uploaded directly to a web site using the device’s gallery and camera. Android has had this feature for a while, but it’s really good news to see that iOS now does the same. This will make one of my current projects a lot easier. Just requires this:

<input type="file" accept="image/*" capture="camera">

Been playing with WebGL a fair bit recently. Feels great to be getting back into 3D programming a bit. CSS Custom filters aren’t exactly WebGL, but they allow 3D like shaders to be used with normal DOM elements. Some really exciting effects.

Hilarious.