Sean Coates is a person on the Internet

Last week, many of the Web's most influential developers and designers converged on a seemingly unremarkable art space (née factory for novelty invisible dog leashes) in Brooklyn for the first of what I hope will become a long-standing conference traditio…

On several recent occasions I had a need for an incrementer that uses an arbitrary character set and I thought I'd share my code with you.

Note from future Sean: this is certainly dead code 10 years later; leaving here for reference in case it's somehow useful.

Over the past few weeks, my business partner Cameron and I have spent evenings, late nights, and weekends (at least partially) working on a much-improved seancoates.com.

Today is my last day at OmniTI.

I fully acknowledge that this is a rant.

Note: This article first ran in php|architect in March 2008, while I still worked at MTA.

A while back, I blogged about trust on the web, and how there are a lot of assumptions made by content providers that simply don't carry over to end users, or are just a small (but important) step from being good practices.

As you may have already heard, I've recently taken a position at OmniTI.

Every time I'm forced to waste small fractions of my life navigating (and re-navigating) the Air Canada web site, I run into new points of frustration.

I'm so frustrated.

A few days back, Chris Shiflett sent out an email asking a bunch of members of the PHP community to submit to a project he wants to run this year, the PHP Advent Calendar.

A friend of mine sent me a message on Facebook, yesterday.

When I'm traveling, I often like to sample beer that's unavailable here in beer-wasteland-Quebec (local microbreweries not withstanding).

Marco already posted on this, but I thought I'd pitch in our side of the story.

Yesterday, if you tried to call me (either at work, or at home, or even my mobile), you were probably unable to reach me.

Quite a while ago, O'Reilly sent me a copy of my friend and colleague, Chris Shiflett's book, Essential PHP Security.

I've often had to manipulate large blobs of text—no, make that many files containing large blobs of text.

"Here's the mascot," he said, leaning over one of my two half-walls, handing me a file of papers, "the production guys will get you the artwork.

There's been a blip on the PHP blogosphere (think what you will of that word, it's accurate) regarding PHP's "inherent security flaws."

Interesting little trick I picked up a while back, been meaning to blog about it.

This morning, I read Davey's post about how to compile PHP in a way that allows you ro specify your own mail() function.

A predominant PHP developer (whose name I didn't get permission to drop, so I won't, but many of you know who I mean) has been doing a bunch of research related to Cross Site Scripting (XSS), lately.

I was reminded, this past week, of how cool the tokenizer is.