[nyphp-talk] Recommend a good accountant?
Does anyone have a Manhattan-based accountant who is familiar with freelancer issues? I need one asap but no one I know seems to Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs___ New York PHP Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online http://www.nyphpcon.com Show Your Participation in New York PHP http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php
[nyphp-talk] Recommend a good accountant?
Does anyone have a really good, Manhattan-based accountant, familiar with freelancer issues? Any recommendations appreciated. If you could include what they charge that would be great also! Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping___ New York PHP Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online http://www.nyphpcon.com Show Your Participation in New York PHP http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php
[nyphp-talk] Re: email verification (Gary Mort)
Gary,
I noticed that your From header and your Reply-to headers are different. In my
experience, hotmail (and many others) will penalize you and stick your email in
the spam folder, or delay delivery. You are not doing anything "illegal" per
say but nevertheless, it's a red flag to a lot of free email providers.
Cheers,
Rada
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Hi,
When people register,they will have their own username and password.In order to
active their account,they have to go to their email acct to click the link to
active pages.
Here is my source code:
// send a message to the user's email account with a verification link
$subject = 'BarterJunk.com account activation for ' . $username;
// header of the verification email message
$header = 'From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]' . "\r\n" .
'Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]' . "\r\n" .
'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
// text of the verification email message
$verification_message =
"{$username},\n\n" .
"Please visit the link below to activate your new BarterJunk.com
account.\n\n" .
"http://www.barterjunk.com/?activation_code="; .
$user_data['activation_hash'] . "\n";
// send the message
mail( $email, $subject, $verification_message, $header );
It works,but it takes very long time.After people submit all their
information,they will get verification email after 20-30 minutes.I use hotmail
to test
Any better solution?
Thanks!
chad
Make distant family not so distant with Windows Vista® + Windows Live™. Start
now!
.hmmessage P
{
margin:0px;padding:0px;}
body.hmmessage
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FONT-SIZE:10pt;FONT-FAMILY:Tahoma;}
Hi,
When people register,they will have their own username and password.In order to
active their account,they have to go to their email acct to click the link to
active pages.
Here is my source code:
// send a message to the user's email account with a verification link
$subject = 'BarterJunk.com account activation for ' . $username;
// header of the verification email message
$header = 'From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]' . "\r\n" .
'Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]' . "\r\n" .
'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
// text of the verification email message
$verification_message =
"{$username},\n\n" .
"Please visit the link below to activate your new BarterJunk.com
account.\n\n" .
"http://www.barterjunk.com/?activation_code="; .
$user_data['activation_hash'] . "\n";
// send the message
mail( $email, $subject, $verification_message, $header );
It works,but it takes very long time.After people submit all their
information,they will get verification email after 20-30 minutes.I use hotmail
to test
Any better solution?
Thanks!
chad
Make distant family not so distant with Windows Vista® + Windows Live™. Start
now!
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It's not your code, it's the underlying email system.
Most likely, hotmail is greylisting your domain, so it has to wait
until
the retry occurs to deliver it.
chad qian wrote:
> Hi,
> When people register,they will have their own username and
password.In
> order to active their account,they have to go to their email acct to
> click the link to active pages.
> Here is my source code:
> // send a message to the user's email account with a verification
link
> $subject = 'BarterJunk.com account activation for ' .
$username;
>
> // header of the verification email message
> $header = 'From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]' . "\r\n"
.
>'Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]' . "\r\n" .
>
[nyphp-talk] RE: IE Error - The security certificate presented by this website
Most likely, your problem is that you think "something.com" is the same as "www.something.com" and in this case, it's not. Hope that helps! Cheers, Rada Lapsker Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs___ New York PHP Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online http://www.nyphpcon.com Show Your Participation in New York PHP http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php
[nyphp-talk] heredoc help please?
Hello all, Can anyone help me with heredoc? I have this code: (I am using PHP5 and zend for editor) and I am expecting to see output with line breaks. Can't see them though, no matter what I do. The heredoc just outputs everything on one line, like this: This is a heredoc test. Test line 2. Test line 3 with tab. Any ideas? I do not have any extraneous characters around the delimiters. I also thought the problem might be the line break style of my editor (Zend) but I tried everything: "\n", "\r\n", and "as-is" (whatever that is..) and still no go. Thanks for any help! Rada Lapsker Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs___ New York PHP Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online http://www.nyphpcon.com Show Your Participation in New York PHP http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php
[nyphp-talk] What does this code do?
Hi all, I am trying to implement a user-input scrubbing function, more specifically, normalize linebreaks from windows/mac to unix. I can just do preg_replace but I saw this piece of code somewhere and don't understand it enough to even know what to google. supposedly converts Windows CRLF to Unix LF: $str =~ s/\r\n/\n/g; What does =~ do? I can RTFM if you point me to it :) Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping___ New York PHP Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online http://www.nyphpcon.com Show Your Participation in New York PHP http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php
[nyphp-talk] Re: Why IT Sucks
Tom, As someone who grew up under a communist regime, I absolutely love your anti-protectionist attitude. However, I have a factual issue with what you said about IT salaries: Look at your market. The "big" consulting firms charge much more and pay their people much more. How come they are getting it and you are not? That's the question you need to ask. You shouldn't be looking for protection from the marketplace, you should be looking for ways to excel in it. I have worked for two of the Big consulting firms for several year. I am very familiar with their particular way of doing business and I'd like to make two points. 1. Hourly Rates In my case, I was billed out at ~$350/hour while making $80K/year. The easy conclusion is: cut out the middle man and take $350/hour for yourself. A slightly more thoughtful conclusion is: cut my rate down to say, $250, since I no longer have a shiny midtown office with a support staff, enterprise hardware/licenses ready to go, etc, etc. But the real deal is something else altogether. The real reason managers hire the big guns is risk assurance, or what is known in consultant speak as "you can't get fired for choosing IBM". The second you are no longer with a big firm, your bid will never even make to due diligence stage of the proposal process, let alone pass it. If you don't believe me, look at recruiters. I am a freelancer now, working through agencies. They make a percentage of what I make and therefore would LOVE to get me a higher rate. They simply can't though. I work with several good agencies and the rates are similar across the board even while they can't find enough people. That tells you something right there about the market. 2. Salaries There are indeed people making excellent money at big consulting firms. They are called partners. They may be former engineers, but believe me the only way that they make top bonuses etc is if they SELL. If you see a consultant making really good money, it's because they've been selling projects and just haven't made the full transition from a techie to a partner yet. You will invariably see them in project manager roles, which is the bridge. I quit big consulting in 2003 and I've been fairly successful as a freelancer. I also happen to support your viewpoint a 100%, both what you said about the evils of regulation (be it unions, licenses, or whatever) and taking personal responsibility for what we choose to do and for how much. However, facts are facts - IT people make less than others when compared in terms of education and skills, and you did go a little bit Ayn Rand on us when you said that we should be looking to excel instead of complaining. I'd love to live in a world where working hard gets me a pass to a mountain paradise of prosperity but it's just not the case. Let's face it, we do what we do because we like it... not because we couldn't get more mileage elsewhere on same brainpower. Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ___ New York PHP Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online http://www.nyphpcon.com Show Your Participation in New York PHP http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php
[nyphp-talk] (no subject)
To Jason @ InnovationAds.com Jason, from the tone of your email, you think we developers are full of sh*t. If I understand correctly, you can’t get a decent resume across your desk and you are frustrated and desperate to find people to work in “perhaps the best environment you’ve seen in NY”. The real picture seems a little different however. According to your website, you don’t have any technology jobs: http://jobs.innovationads.com/technology And here is just a sample of a long, long list of empty cliches from your employment page. You’d think this was a draft for an article in The Onion: dynamic company, exponential growth, success based on high quality products and services at a low cost , constantly looking for ways to improve in the ways we deliver services, market leader connecting thousands of consumers with businesses every day, multi-faceted organization , believes in maintaining high standards in everything we do, the better we are the better we serve our clients, dedicated to hiring the best in the industry, workforce geared toward achieving even higher levels of success, strong commitment to diversity, diversity helps us meet and exceed our customers' needs, diversity is vital and necessary to our success in providing quality products and services for our clients, committed to helping the environment by carrying out a set of principals which are aligned with the Company’s mission, etc. etc. etc. Sorry to be so harsh, but do you honestly think the above paints a good picture for prospective candidates? Your website is the first place we are going to look and it just screams corporate boredom and politics. If it were one percent as passionate and human as your post, perhaps you’d have a better success rate. Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ___ New York PHP Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online http://www.nyphpcon.com Show Your Participation in New York PHP http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php
[nyphp-talk] Old subject new day - Pear Captcha
Rob, I just installed http://www.captcha.ru/en/ last month and recommend it, very easy to use. Rada Lapsker ___ New York PHP Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online http://www.nyphpcon.com Show Your Participation in New York PHP http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php
[nyphp-talk] Re: Embedding PL/SQL procedure into PHP
Julia Do you still need info re. using oracle stored procs in php? I have a lot of experience with both... feel free to ask any questions. -rada - Original Message From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: talk@lists.nyphp.org Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2008 11:07:04 AM Subject: talk Digest, Vol 21, Issue 24 Send talk mailing list submissions to talk@lists.nyphp.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can reach the person managing the list at [EMAIL PROTECTED] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of talk digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: Embedding PL/SQL procedure into PHP (bzcoder) 2. Re: need another pair of eyes! (Kristina Anderson) 3. Scour.com invite from Joseph Crawford (Joseph Crawford) 4. Re: Scour.com invite from Joseph Crawford (Scott Mattocks) 5. Re: Scour.com invite from Joseph Crawford (Joseph Crawford) 6. Re: Scour.com invite from Joseph Crawford (Rolan Yang) 7. Re: Scour.com invite from Joseph Crawford (Joseph Crawford) 8. Re: Scour.com invite from Joseph Crawford (Mitch Pirtle) I was starting to wonder about you Joe - you didn't seem the type to send an email and then send it again; and then send it again. ;-) On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 10:46 AM, Joseph Crawford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > haha Rolan, > > I hear ya there. I dunno why it sent to everyone like it did, seems kinda > retarded to me. > > Joseph Crawford > > On Jul 24, 2008, at 10:41 AM, Rolan Yang wrote: > >> Hrm.. another web 2.0'ism is about to be born. We already have phishing, >> vishing (voip based phishing). >> I'd like to coin the term scishing (scour.com phishing?). >> >> Scishing - (ski'-shing) : The act of fooling an internet user into >> divulging their web mail login/password during registration, then raping >> them for and spamming their entire email contact list. >> >> perhaps on a lesser malicious level there could also be FBishing, >> Plaxoishing, Linkedishing, recently MySpaishing, and so forth.. >> >> ~Rolan >> >> >> >> >> Joseph Crawford wrote: >>> >>> Scott, >>> >>> This was not intentional. I imported my google contacts, choose which >>> addresses to NOT send to and YET it STILL sent to them. >>> >>> I apologize this was not done on purpose. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Joseph Crawford >>> >>> On Jul 24, 2008, at 10:17 AM, Scott Mattocks wrote: >>> >>>> Do you really plan to spam every list you are on with this message? I >>>> just want to know now so that I can set up a filter to remove then >>>> automatically. >>>> >>>> Thanks. >>>> ___ >>>> New York PHP Community Talk Mailing List >>>> http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk >>>> >>>> NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online >>>> http://www.nyphpcon.com >>>> >>>> Show Your Participation in New York PHP >>>> http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php >>> >>> ___ >>> New York PHP Community Talk Mailing List >>> http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk >>> >>> NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online >>> http://www.nyphpcon.com >>> >>> Show Your Participation in New York PHP >>> http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php >>> >> ___ >> New York PHP Community Talk Mailing List >> http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk >> >> NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online >> http://www.nyphpcon.com >> >> Show Your Participation in New York PHP >> http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php > > ___ > New York PHP Community Talk Mailing List > http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk > > NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online > http://www.nyphpcon.com > > Show Your Participation in New York PHP > http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php > ___ talk mailing list talk@lists.nyphp.org http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk ___ New York PHP Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online http://www.nyphpcon.com Show Your Participation in New York PHP http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php
[nyphp-talk] Re: A good PCRE expression for matching URLs
Michael Check out Zend's URI validation. It uses permissible characters rather than excluded characters. http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.uri.html#zend.uri.chapter (you'll want to take a look at /Uri/Http.php) Cheers Rada Lapsker ___ New York PHP Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online http://www.nyphpcon.com Show Your Participation in New York PHP http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php
[nyphp-talk] Fw: soccer website - need help ASAP! (susanna thornton STUDIO)
Below are current Cut-off Wages for computer specialists from the New York State Department of Labor. These are not some extravagant rates. These are rates that the NYS DOL considers so low that if you are unemployed and someone offers you work below this rate, you can refuse the job without losing your unemployment insurance. Needless to say, nobody with a brain will work for cut-off wages, these are just examples of absolute rock-bottom rates. Occupation Cut-off Wage Computer Programmers $31.77 Computer Software Engineers $35.79 Computer Support Specialists $24.30 The above hourly rates are for full-time work. For less than 40 hours/week, the rates have to be proportionately higher. For example, if you are a "Computer Programmer", the hourly cut-off wage is $31.77 but the corresponding yearly wage is $74,626.00. To Susanna: This is a professional PHP community and frankly, your $10/hour for part-time work is inappropriate to the point of being insulting. You may think that an offer is just an offer and those who don't like it could simply pass on by, but I'd rather not see this online space turn into a craigslist ghetto with its infamous "looking for someone to build me a YouTube/Ebay combo for $1,000" ads. To fellow PHP developers: I know we are all flooded with work and don't necesarily have time for nonsense, but let's try and take care of each other. Save this link for the DOL minimum wages page and let unethical would-be clients know when they've crossed the line. For sample language, please refer to the No Spec project which contains lots of great examples like this. Sincerely Rada Lapsker ___ New York PHP Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online http://www.nyphpcon.com Show Your Participation in New York PHP http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php
Re: [nyphp-talk] talk Digest, Vol 36, Issue 14
Hi Brian I have an LLC and have some thoughts for you. 1. For cost reasons, please consider a DBA (doing-business-as) instead of an LLC. It's cheaper (by at least a couple grand) and the piece of paper you get from the City Hall allows you to open a bank account just as well as the LLC formation letter. 2. Generally, if there is a problem on a contract, you are not liable for more than the contract is worth, unless you are willfully negligent or overstated your professional capabilities AND caused major material damage to the client. Given that you do web development (as opposed to, say, server admin work) and that your work is incremental (the client signs off on deliverables) I believe your liability issues are not worth the cost of forming an LLC. 3. If you have an office, your landlord will force you to get general liability insurance regardless of your business entity. It should cover you for things such as clients falling down on a wet floor in your office. 4. From my own painful personal experience I can tell you that no amount of paperwork, liability firewall, etc. helps when things go down between two partners. Where it does help to have an LLC with two partners, is in marriage. I "sold" my husband 99% of my LLC as a passive investor and this saves us the whole self-employent tax thanks to a tax loophole (the legal kind :). Let me know if you want to know about this further. 5. Speaking of taxes, I can recommend my accountant: medowscpa.com 6. Where you might need an LLC, is doing consulting corp-to-corp. As a hypothetical situation, you may work for a client on a consulting basis full-time for a year, and then sue them for back health insurance and taxes claiming that since your work was essentially full-time, they owe you the same empoyment benefits as their full-timers - whereas if you were an LLC, this would not be an issue. However I've never had a company raise this fear with me. They either don't know, or don't care. As long as you have a registered business entity, everyone seems to be happy. 7. Do not waste your time looking into forming an LLC in another state unless you are 100% virtual. If you do business in New York, you will have to foreign-qualify, and the costs will be just the same if not more in some cases. Hope that helps! Rada Varshavskaya On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 15:09, wrote: > Send talk mailing list submissions to >talk@lists.nyphp.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit >http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to >talk-requ...@lists.nyphp.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at >talk-ow...@lists.nyphp.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of talk digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. [OT] LLC and contract business (Brian O'Connor) > 2. Re: [OT] LLC and contract business (Kristina Anderson) > 3. Re: [OT] LLC and contract business (Eric Gewirtz) > 4. Re: [OT] LLC and contract business (tedd) > 5. Re: [OT] LLC and contract business (Michael B Allen) > > > -- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:25:32 -0400 > From: "Brian O'Connor" > To: NYPHP Talk > Subject: [nyphp-talk] [OT] LLC and contract business > Message-ID: ><29da5d150910131025v648b31b2l68664ad3c650a...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Hey guys, I hope this isn't too off-topic, as I'm sure there's a few people > here who are in the self-employment arena that can shed some advice. > > As a prefix, I'm going to assume no one is a lawyer and such won't hold you > accountable (unless you otherwise say I can). > > I've been doing some side web development over the past 6 months with a > designer and things are going great, and we seem to be getting clients at a > great pace. Obviously, the question is arising as to whether or not we > should LLC our "group" and make things official and to prevent losing > everything we own, and to look more professional. However, I've heard > conflicting things about what to do. > > I was always under the impression that LLC was the way to go, but now I > might not be so sure. What are the rules to getting an LLC? Do I need an > address in the state I registered the LLC in for it to work? Does the LLC > need an official bank account in order for the checks to be cashed / money > to be transferred? > How do the taxes work if there's 2 members of the LLC? > > I'm very curious about how this all works! > > Thanks in advance, > Brian
Re: [nyphp-talk] talk Digest, Vol 36, Issue 19
Hi Allen Two must-read's from Linus Torvalds and Jeff Atwood about SSD's: http://torvalds-family.blogspot.com/2008/10/so-i-got-one-of-new-intel-ssds.html http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001304.html That's my next upgrade! Rada Varshavskaya On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 21:24, wrote: > > -- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 19:50:30 -0500 > From: Allen Shaw > To: NYPHP Talk > Subject: [nyphp-talk] developer's machine specs -- recomendations? > Message-ID: <4adbb7d6.8070...@twomiceandastrawberry.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > Who here is happy with their current development machine? Would you > care to share your hardware specs? > > I'm looking to upgrade my 7-year old desktop for something with a little > more snap. Hopefully under $1000, but it's been ages since I shopped > prices, so clue me in if I'm naive. > > For context: This is for full-time web app development primarily in PHP, > running some flavor of Linux. Essentially no graphic design work at > all. Desktop or laptop, I'm indifferent. > > For the most part I've been fine with my current setup, but I recently > started using a framework which, for all I can do to it, takes 10 and 15 > seconds to render a page on this machine. I've finally decided just to > throw hardware at it. Page-load times are unnoticeable on my rented > hosting servers, so I can't really blame the framework. On this > machine, when I'm loading pages all day trying "this way" or "that way", > those 15-second page loads add up pretty fast. > > I'd love to hear any advice on what makes a good web developer's > machine. At this point I don't have a lot of places to ask, other than > vendors who'll just sell me as much as they can con me into. > > Thanks, > Allen > > -- > Allen Shaw > TwoMiceAndAStrawberry.com > > "Data Management, Web Applications, and the Meaning of Life" > ___ New York PHP Users Group Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk http://www.nyphp.org/Show-Participation
