Adam Gotterer

Recursive PHP in_array function

Adam — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:41:51 +0000

I needed a recursive in_array function the other day and disliked all the samples I found on php.net. I wrote this one using the StandardPHPLibrary. It will recursively search through a multidimensional array and return true if the $needle is found in the $haystack.

 
function in_array_recursive($needle, $haystack) {
 
    $it = new RecursiveIteratorIterator(new RecursiveArrayIterator($haystack));
 
    foreach($it AS $element) {
        if($element == $needle) {
            return true;
        }
    }
 
    return false;
}

Personal Life

Adam — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 03:32:27 +0000

I moved my personal life over to tumblr.adamgotterer.com. Feel free to follow my life by the minute. This site will now only be related to tech posts and my ventures.

People I Want To Meet

Adam — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 07:25:23 +0000

I recently had a discussion with a friend of mine about who she would want to meet given the opportunity. She of course, like most people listed off a handful of A, B and C list celebrities. I have put some thought into it since that conversation and realized the only two “celebrities” I would want to meet are Larry David and Steven Wright. I feel like I can really relate to both of their senses of humor. Also if I didn’t know who my real father was, I would assume it was Larry David.

In actuality my list of meets consisted of a bunch of geeks and business moguls. Heres my list, in no particular order…

Larry Page & Sergey Brin - Founders of Google. Enough said.

Zed Shaw - Creator of Mongrel, a web server for Ruby applications. While I’m not a ruby developer (I have dabbled), this guy is the most opinionated stright up guy on the web. He doesn’t sugar coat anything, says it like it is. I think we would have a great time debating geeky topics.

Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee - This guy pretty much created the world wide web.

Richard Branson - I just want to check out his island, drink some beers and jet ski with this guy.

Markus Frind - Creator of plentyoffish.com. This guy runs one of the largest dating sites on the internet single handed. He makes millions.

Barry Diller - CEO of InterActiveCorp. Ruthless, brilliant business man. Seems to have a knack for picking winners.

John Malone - If I’m going to meet Barry Diller, I dont want John to feel left out.

Paul Buchheit - Creator of gmail… So cool!

Kevin Rose - Creator of digg.com and revision 3, probably has the biggest “geek” fan boy following and definitely knows how to hold his liquor. Might as well throw Jay Adelson in there as well, current CEO of digg, founder of revision 3 and Equinix.

Steve Jobs - Why not, the guy is brilliant. Maybe he will hook me up with a free iphone.

Steve Wozniak - Now we are talking brilliant. More or less created the personal computer.

37 Signals Team - While I don’t agree with all of their practices, these guys are pretty smart and I would love to pick their brains.

Guido van Rossum - Creator of python. I really need to start using it a bit more.

Bill Gates - Needs no introduction.

Gary Dahl - Creator of the pet rock. If this guy can get people to buy a rock for $3.95, he can sell just about anything and I would love to know how.

Dave Hyatt & Blake Ross - Creators of Firefox.

Linus Torvalds - Creator of Linux and the poster boy for hackers everywhere.

Job Search

Adam — Fri, 30 May 2008 13:09:18 +0000

In the past three weeks at least five people have asked me if I knew anyone looking for full time web development work. Without doing much research it seems that even with the poor economy the tech industry is still hiring. Unfortunately for the people looking I don’t know anyone searching for a job. I’m getting close to starting a recruiting agency though =) But until then… One of the people asked if I could compile a list of websites for posting technology related jobs. What I sent her is below. Don’t forget College Humor is hiring for a number of positions as well!

http://www.crunchboard.com/crunch.html - Found my current job here!
http://jobs.slashdot.org/
http://jobs.37signals.com/
http://market.mashable.com/
http://jobs.alleyinsider.com/
http://startupers.com/
http://jobs.readwriteweb.com/
http://venturebeat.personforce.com/jobboard.php
http://jobs.paidcontent.org/
http://nextny.jobthread.com/
http://jobs.43folders.com/
http://www.cybercoders.com/
http://jobs.ajaxian.com/
http://www.odesk.com/jobs/
http://www.dice.com/

Gawker Defeated

Adam — Thu, 29 May 2008 04:38:09 +0000

The first official round of “dot pong” (our corporate internet beer pong league) against Gawker Media was won by College Humor. I think the final score was 15 to 3, or something close to that. My partner Nick Dunkman (of College Humor and Busted Tees dev) and I went 3-0. Next up Digg!

Weather Man

Adam — Wed, 28 May 2008 13:38:42 +0000

It just occurred to me that being wrong 50% or more of the time at any other job would get you fired.

Corporate Beer Pong League

Adam — Wed, 28 May 2008 05:20:38 +0000

It seems College Humor has started what can only be described as a corporate beer pong league between internet companies. We are playing Gawker Media today and there are plans to play digg sometime in the coming weeks. We were supposed to play Facebook last week, but their legal and PR department canceled the match last minute. At least they sent over some food while we played interoffice.

I wrote about Facebook talking smack. We had some custom balls from Adams Balls made up…

Weebly Puzzle

Adam — Wed, 28 May 2008 05:06:51 +0000

This site attracts a decent amount of JavaScript folks so I thought this would be relevant and maybe even helpful. I read news.ycombinator.com everyday (or several times a day). If you are into the startup world, you should as well. It has by far the best startup news and a great community. The feedback and questions posted on there are generally informative and trolling is at a bare minimum. It’s what reddit used to be. Regardless, I came across a job posting at Weebly for a web developer position. The job description came with a little JavaScript puzzle. I had no intention of actually applying for the job, but when ever I find these puzzles I like to do them. I’m not going to post the results, because thats not cool. If you want to check your answer email me your best guess. But it entertained me for about 20 minutes. So if you’re bored or actually looking for a job check it out at http://www.weebly.com/jobs.html.

PriceAdvance Launches!

Adam — Thu, 08 May 2008 23:41:00 +0000

We are officially out of beta today! We launched with 19 supported merchants, an advanced pricing system that does in-cart pricing (the price after you add to cart) and an Internet Explorer version on top of a new Firefox release. Check out our new demo reel below, courtesy of mostlylisa.

CollegeHumor vs. Facebook

Adam — Tue, 06 May 2008 04:42:57 +0000

This post is not a comparison of CollegeHumor and Facebook. This is about a contest. Not just any contest. But a contest that will finally reveal which college site will reign all… reign all in beer pong. We should really be playing for domain name ownership. But I think they are chicken. Look how much trash they talk…

Facebook Invite

They have been targeting our news feeds

AD’s directed to CollegeHumor. This is just a scam to get us to buy ads to fight back on the digital front.