IndyCar Series

What the…?> PHP and unwanted whitespace

Posted by Jon on Feb 18, 2009 in Development, IMS, IndyCar Series, PHP | 1 comment

Over at BigBlueHat there is an interesting blog post about using the ?> at the end of php files. While personally I don’t use it on scripts that contain just php code, but I can see where both sides are coming from.

Check out the article and leave your feedback!

Seven Things – Tagged by Rob Allen

Posted by Jon on Jan 2, 2009 in General, IndyCar Series, PHP | 0 comments

Like Rob Allen, I don’t really understand these tagged memes either, however, but I’m always game for something new.

Seven things you may not know about me:

• I’ve been doing HTML and web programming since late 1995 when I started using Hot Dog HTML Editor from Sausage Software
  
• I’ve been using some form of linux since mid 1998 after hearing about it on a show called The Screen Savers.
  
• My friends and I played Dr. Mario on the NES so much one day that it melted the console with the game still in.
  
• TV is my second love after programming and computers.  I currently have two DVRs that record up to 15 hours a week of TV.
  
• I am an avid fan of music and I’m always listening to it.
• I enjoy watching IndyCar Series races as it’s some of the best racing out now.
  
• When I drink beer, I prefer to drink beer that is a micro brew.

I then get to pass on the baton to:

• Chrisian (Spooons) Flickinger: Who supplied the FAILS! stickets at ZendCon ’08
• Ralph Schindler: With out Ralph’s help I would not be patching Zend Framework as often.
• Ed Finkler: Who makes the best Twitter Air Client around SPAZ.
• Rey Bengo: Always has good news on the JavaScript front.
• Brandon Savage:  Member of the PHP Community
• Ben Ramsey: Organizer of the PHP|Atlanta and PHP Community Member
• Wil Sinclair: Project leader for Zend Framework

These are the rules apparently:

• Link your original tagger(s), and list these rules on your blog.
• Share seven facts about yourself in the post – some random, some wierd.
• Tag seven people at the end of your post by leaving their names and the links to their blogs.
• Let them know they’ve been tagged by leaving a comment on their blogs and/or Twitter.

2008: The year in review

Posted by Jon on Jan 1, 2009 in 500, Development, General, IMS, IndyCar Series | 1 comment

It seems that everyone is doing this so I will join in.

In short my year was this:

• Attended 4 IndyCar Series Races (Indy, Belle Isle, Kentucky, Mid-Ohio)
• Watched all the other IndyCar Series Races on TV.
• Attended one NASCAR and MotoGP Race at IMS.
• Worked with Zend on the Zend Framework Certification
• Attended my first (but not last) ZendCon

Life is busy…

Posted by Jon on Sep 12, 2008 in General, IMS, IndyCar Series | 0 comments

Wow it’s been a while since my last post but my life has been busy.  I traveled with for work up to the IndyCar Series Race at Belle Isle Raceway in Detroit, Mi.  It was a lot of fun as the race was a very good race and I was sitting about 3 feet away from the race track in the Timing and Scoring Booth.

The 2008 IndyCar season at chicagoland where Helio Castroneves beat Scott Dixon for the win by 0.0033 of a seconds which is the second closest finish in Series History.  Scott still won the championship but Helio made it interesting going into Chicagoland.

Now that the IndyCar season is over with I’m going to be heading to ZendCon ’08 to learn and meet some of the people I talk with online all the time now.  It’s going to be a blast and I can’t wait for it, but before I get to head out to sunny California we have to provide support the Inaugural Red Bull Indianapolis Grand Prix at the Speedway.

It’s going to be fun watching the motocycles go around the road course inside the oval of the track.  They are saying that they will hit 200 mph while going down the front stretch and across the yard of bricks.  I think it’s going to be a very fun weekend.

Stay tuned for some blogging from ZendCon ’08!