Flickr's head of "plumbing" posted a fun teaser game a few days ago by posting a graph which showed a large drop in CPU utilization on a Flickr web server and asked the community what caused the drop.

ONEsite is fortunate enough to have run PHP5 from the very beginning (2004/2005) and been able to take advantage of all of the wonderful OOP features and enhancements that were the basis of Zend Engine II.

PHP is a terrific language that allows for rapid prototyping and enterprise level performance.  It also has a great community built up around it and fantastic developers.

Personally, I am looking forward to PHP 5.3 being released as generally available so that we can take advantage of late static bindings.  It's a great time to be a PHP developer, and it's also easier than ever to share data between programs in different languages.

Nothing has made me really feel like I am living in the 21st century more than the iPhone.  It is not perfect, but using it makes me feel like I am holding an artifact from the future--perhaps the Illustrated Primer from Neal Stephenson's Diamond Age novel.

We recently submitted our first iPhone application to the iTunes application store and I am quite proud of the polish of version 1 and of the accomplishments of the team behind the app.  It is the first of many ONEsite-powered applications which through the power of the mobile web will allow our community members to more easily contribute their own content in addition to providing their own perspectives on others' contributions.

2009 is the year in which data portability and social network interoperability are emerging as truly useful features to the average website viewer.  It has never been easier to register for your favorite community or to broadcast your photos or thoughts to your friends and the world, no matter their social network.

Look for exciting new things coming from ONEsite.  We are truly building momentum.