Eli White

PHP, Games, Crossbows, Beer

Eli White is a PHP Coder, author, and speaker who currently works as Lead Developer on goodsie.com for HiiDef. In his off hours, he writes more code, plays Xbox, and does Medieval Reenactment in the SCA (including archery, armored combat, brewing and woodworking)

Blog

Switched from Gowalla to Foursquare July 21, 2010
So for a long time, I’ve been a Gowalla fan for all my ‘location tagging’ social needs. In fact, some might have called me a fan of it. You see, ‘many years ago’ when I worked at Digg.com, Foursquare came out. It seemed like a neat service and concept and tons of my fellow Digg [...] More
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Conferences, Speakers & Presentations March 17, 2010
There has been alot of chatter in the PHP community lately about conferences, speakers and specifically the fact that many speakers at conferences seem to be doing last-minute preparations for their presentations instead of being professional and ready well in advance. Most recently this came out because a number of speakers for ConFoo (A PHP/Python/Ruby/Java [...] More
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An intriguing use of lambda functions March 10, 2010
I’ve been working hard on Goodsie.com lately trying to bring it to launch. It’s been great being in on a new PHP project from (near) the beginning, as it frees up a number of things. One of those, is the fact that I can be using PHP 5.3 and all the new features that come [...] More
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Twitter

RT @Digeratii: Oh my god, Facebook has finally become self-aware. http://twitpic.com/2kgl6u September 2, 2010 9:09am

Burning midnight oil. Code is swirling before my eyes. Can't focus. Closing lid. September 1, 2010 10:09pm

RT @blinkdaddy: Good advice: The three things a CEO should do well http://bit.ly/cLIHe4 (mine does) September 1, 2010 7:09am

Waiting for the school bus to drop my son off at the bus stop. This feels weird. August 31, 2010 2:08pm

Cloud hosting rocks. We just did a major server migration at Goodsie, with -0- downtime, and suddenly everything is faster. BOOM! August 31, 2010 1:08pm

Hey @ieure Thanks for the roundabout mention on TechCrunch :-D August 31, 2010 7:08am

Getting ready to put my son on the bus for the first time. Starting kindergarten today. August 31, 2010 5:08am

Someone is trying to help me write code: http://yfrog.com/epkb6fj August 30, 2010 9:08am