heredoc, heredoc, heredoc

For whatever reason I can't remember the PHP heredoc syntax. It's simple, I know. But my problem is I always do greater than (>>>) instead of less than (<<<). My reason behind this post is to hopefully ingrain it into my head.

In case you are unfamiliar, this is great for copying and pasting a bunch of pre-existing HTML with double quotes into PHP. The reason being is that you don't have to escape all the double-quotes.

More info over at PHP on the Strings page.

Once again, repeat after me. heredoc is <<<.

By the way, did I mention "Go Tigers"

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March Madness Epiphany

As I was looking over my bracket, I noticed something that I hadn't realized for a few years now. I don't get to go crazy for my work.

Some quick notes:

• I work in the higher education industry, and just in the past year have started paying closer attention to what other higher ed web persons are doing. So naturally many of them, especially those with teams in the tourney, are quite excited.


• I work at a Health Science Center. The students here have long given up on their athletic dreams. Because let's face it, if they could really shoot a basketball, they wouldn't here.


• UTHSC and UT (Knoxville) aren't the same. So don't suggest rooting for the Volunteers. My Mom and Dad raised me better than that.

Oh well, I can live vicariously through the tweets and blogs of my fellow higher ed web folks that work at institutions with athletics. And I also always have my alma mater, even more so during this time of year.

So... Go Tigers! and what a raw deal. 3 years in a row now we are stuck in a bracket playing a lower seeded team in their backyard. 2006 as a #1 seed and playing UCLA in Oakland. 2007 as a #2 seed playing A&M in San Antonio. And now 2008 as a #1 seed possibly playing Texas in Houston. Maybe the ole' ball coach is right with all this conspiracy talk:)

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Ode to Collage

So the grapevine turns out true again. It seems as if Serena has decided to drop it's content management system, Collage. It just so happens we decided to buy the product just about a year or so ago.

That being said I really feel for the folks that I had the opportunity to meet at Xchange 2007 that are fully invested with the product. Not to mention doing some pretty cool things with Collage.

I believe its safe to say this has moved its way down my priority list, at least until it gets hashed out what will happen to the product. If it is just left to die, then there is no sense in continuing to implement it. If it is sold to someone, then it should retain its usefulness.

Anyway just gonna sit and wait on this one. It's not like I don't have plenty of other stuff to keep me busy.

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