P’unk Avenue
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- 1168 E. Passyunk Aveneue
- Philadelphia PA 19147
- Phone: 215 755 1330
- hello@punkave.com
Philly Foursquare Games
Tonight at 7:30pm, P'unk Ave will square off against its friends at Technically Philly, Indy Hall, Geekadelphia, and others in a friendly series of foursquare matches. Only one of us can be crowned the victor! Should be lots of…
Faster PHP Without Tears
Two years ago I wrote an article about speeding up PHP by configuring your server properly with APC, FastCGI and so on. It still represents a solid set of practices for those who use Apostrophe, or any other PHP…
Tim Quirino Joins the Team!
We are very excited that Tim Quirino has joined the team as an Interactive Designer. (You may know him as the Co-Founder of Geekadelphia.) We are looking forward to the contributions he will make in the very near future.…
Hiring: We are looking for another interactive designer/engineer to join the team
It’s that time again! P'unk Avenue is looking for a talented interactive designer / frontend developer to create powerful visual experiences and help see them through to implementation. You will be working with a tightly-integrated team of other frontend…
P'unk Ave Offers Classes
Announcing the first Apostrophe product classes held by P'unk Avenue! Our vision in launching Apostrophe is to help people make beautiful websites that they can afford, and manage themselves. Today we are offering our first classes in helping artists and…
Making a New Website Using Apostrophe
With the launch of hosted Apostrophe, all of us at P'unk Ave have been buzzing with excitement. However, I'd like to claim, that I am the MOST excited. Usually in the project manager role around here, I'm the only person…
Apostrophe People Plugin!
We're pleased to announce a nifty new(-ish) plugin for the Apostrophe open source developer community. The Apostrophe People Plugin lets you organize and display people on Apostrophe pages. You can filter, sort, and search for people and add people…
Apostrophe Gets the Etsy Mini Slot
Using the Etsy Mini slot you can now feature items from your Etsy shop right on your Apostrophe website! The Esty Mini slot is for Etsy sellers and Etsy lovers alike. Sellers can feature their most popular items, while…
Apostrophe: Now it's for Everyone
Last Tuesday while most people on the east coast were heading home from work or enjoying a pleasant happy hour, we ordered Thai takeout and quietly launched hosted Apostrophe. We held our breath and waited for the sky to…
Art Safaris
I just love the idea of these art safaris in Philadelphia. Libby and Robert of the artblog gather a group, throw them in a van, and drive them around the city to show them cool art make by artists…
Creative Connector
I have known for some time that I was named one of Philadelphia's 76 Creative Connectors. WHYY/NewsWorks and Leadership Philadelphia identified this group through an online citizen survey: Leadership Philadelphia has compiled a list of the top 76 Creative…
Apostrophe Scales: Part II
Were you longing to hear the words "and one more thing" at the end of Apple's iPhone 4S press conference? Of course you were (even though the 4S is pretty darn amazing, honestly). So here's "one more thing:" serious…
Wrap it up: storing files in the cloud with PHP
Every website has media. Images, MP3 files, even Office documents, cluttering your server's disk space to the point of no return. Amazon Simple Storage Service, aka S3 is a super-popular solution to that problem. Amazon knows all about storing…
Biking from City to Shore... lightning or no lightning!
Last night I went for a little bike ride. Mother nature had other ideas. This was my view last night as my bike and I waited out a thunderstorm under the Columbia Railroad Bridge, along the Schuylkill River. Yeah,…
When service becomes a performance
This is intriguing on a number of levels. This guy tweeted that he sure wanted a Morton's Steakhouse steak waiting for him at Newark International Airport. And lo and behold, there it was, etc. People pointed out that maybe…
South by Southwestward
So I decided to submit a panel to SXSW this year. I'm not the most vocal/outspoken/social member of P'unk Ave, but I rank amongst the most opinionated. As the lead designer here I touch nearly all of our work,…
Symfony 2 is here!
At long last, the first official stable release of Symfony 2 is out. It was worth the wait. Symfony 2 is an all-new web development framework for PHP. It follows great practices like dependency injection, namespaces, edge side includes…
MacOS X Longcat
Why yes, I am thinking about installing MacOS X Lion today. I'm kidding about the long download (at least I am so far, not yet having tried it). Downloads are a nice alternative to mucking about with DVDs and…
We're eating our own blog food!
P'unk Avenue's blog is now running on Apostrophe. While punkave.com has been an Apostrophe site for a long time, our blog remained a Wordpress site for longer than it should have. That mainly had to do with the need…
Team Togetherness
Each Friday we take a couple hours out of our day to make lunch and share new things with each other. During the week we pass an email thread back and forth to decide what lunch creation we will take…