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	<description>Daniel Krook is an IBM Certified IT Specialist based in the greater New York City area. He has over ten years experience in Web application development and presently builds a cloud infrastructure for IBM using Java EE, DB2, REST, and BlackBerry. He holds certifications in cloud archtecture, PHP, Java EE, BlackBerry, DB2, and Solaris. He occasionally writes PHP-related articles for IBM developerWorks and co-authored the IBM Redbook &#039;Developing PHP Applications for IBM Data Servers.&#039;</description>
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		<title>Predictive analytics for football play outcomes</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 12:47:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Krook</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Inspired by the NFL playoffs in January, I wrote an invention disclosure on how to merge player statistics with current field conditions to yield a visual probability of how a play might turn out. The end result I envisioned was that you could watch the game on television as a spectator (or in real time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zend phpcloud.com at NYPHP</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 14:09:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Krook</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tomorrow night we&#8217;ll again host Edward Kietlinski at New York PHP. He&#8217;ll talk about the latest offerings from Zend to bring your PHP applications to their developer cloud. Soon, you&#8217;ll also be able to deploy your production-ready applications to the IBM SmartCloud. RSVP now for Tuesday night&#8217;s meeting at IBM in midtown Manhattan. Or, if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Migrating PHP applications to DB2</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 14:51:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Krook</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[IBM developerWorks has just published the final part in our series on migrating a PHP application from MySQL to DB2. Learn why to move a PHP application to DB2, how to plan the migration, how to execute it, how to support it, and how to handle potential risks based on the experience of an IBM [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MongoDB and ZendCon at New York PHP</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 18:19:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Krook</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This month we have a double feature at New York PHP. PHP on IBM System i consultant Alan Seiden will give us an update on what transpired at last week&#8217;s ZendCon. 10gen MongoDB evangelist Steve Francia will provide an overview on using PHP with MongoDB. RSVP now for the meeting at IBM in midtown Manhattan [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BlackBerry app for Metro-North schedules</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 23:08:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Krook</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, it took just under two years and quite a bit of marketshare loss, but I found some time to release my long promised native BlackBerry application for Metro-North commuter train schedules. You can download NYC North Trains for free, over-the-air. I&#8217;ve tested it on OS 5 and 6 devices such as the Curve, Style, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Use the IBM Cloud to build your PHP apps</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 20:04:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Krook</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[IBM developerWorks just published an article I wrote about using the Development and Test Cloud to create PHP applications. The tutorial covers some scenarios that make the cloud compelling for PHP developers and then takes the reader through the installation of Zend Server with DB2 on the IBM Cloud. If the content looks familiar, you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Move from MySQL to DB2 via the Cloud</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Nov 2010 14:24:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Krook</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[IBM developerWorks has just published the first article in a series that Mark Nusekabel, Yan Li Mu and I wrote about our experience migrating a large PHP and MySQL application to DB2. In the four part series we look at preparation, switching databases, porting code, and finally deploying the application. This first installment covers the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Everything old is new again</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 19:52:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Krook</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times has published two articles recently about the perception of a rise in plagiarism in the current school-age, digitally native generation: To Stop Cheats, Colleges Learn Their Trickery Plagiarism Lines Blur for Students in Digital Age In a highly technologized culture where information is cheap and easily copied, students can no longer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PHP 5.3 at New York PHP this Tuesday</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2010 15:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Krook</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This month Hans Zaunere and Nate Abele will give us a look at the new features in PHP 5.3 and how they&#8217;re used in production today. Specifically, these NYPHP regulars will cover three new major language features: namespaces, late static binding, and closures. RSVP now for the meeting at IBM in midtown Manhattan on Tuesday [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook and HipHop at New York PHP</title>
		<link>http://krook.net/archives/707</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 23:39:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Krook</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tonight we&#8217;re hosting Scott MacVicar from Facebook as he presents their highly optimized version of PHP called HipHop. HipHop translates and compiles regular PHP source into a C++ binary that reduces CPU and memory usage and thus helps Facebook serve twice the content with a two-thirds the resources of a stock Apache and PHP system. [...]]]></description>
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