I'm Chris Tankersley

At some point, IBM released a thing called JSONx, which was a way to represent JSON in a XML schema. Partially because it is IBM, partially because it is more XML, and partially because the internet is a hive of scum and villainy, developers collectively shit their pants. Here is a sample:

It's the day after MadisonPHP 2014, and I'm sitting in my hotel room waiting to leave, so this is the perfect time to get my thoughts down for this wonderful one day conference in Madison, WI.

Despite me doing a ton of Drupal development, I don't actually have much contributed to the Drupal module ecosystem. That seems like an oversight on my part, especially since I'm doing more and more talking about Drupal, and at php[world] will even be doing a tutorial class on modern Drupal development. I had a project that we worked on at The Brick Factory that was an excellent candidate for releasing to the masses. It is small module that allows site themers to customize their sharing icons. Nothing major, and a good first short.

“This feels more like a family picnic than a conference” – @snipeyhead #lsp14

— Daniel Cousineau (@dcousineau) April 26, 2014

A long time ago, I decided to ditch Wordpress. For what I was doing with my blog, which was mostly just having it sit there and not do much, Wordpress was just to heavy. I mean, sure, I had caching and all that turned on, but I constantly had to make sure it was kept up to date. I had to let it eat CPU cycles on my server while it rebuilt the cache and served pages. It was easy to post articles, but other than that there wasn't a benefit.