I’m never happy with whatever site I’m running or involved with. Evolution of a site is never fast enough for me, never fresh enough for me, and never easy enough to work with. Over the years, I’ve run test versions of my sites using Mambo, PostNuke, PHP-Nuke, PHP-X, Drupal, ezPublish, and many other LAMP-based CMS…
Author: bkjones
More home improvements
Well, last week a crew finished up putting a new roof on the house. All’s well with that, and that same crew will be back in the next week or so to replace the gutters and soffits (sp?). As it turned out, the gutters were really the biggest cause of roof issues. Due to the…
Linux as Stock
I think people relate to money a lot better than they do technology. Money has been around much longer, and knowledge (or perceived knowledge) has been passed down about money for generations, and truthfully, it hasn’t changed a whole heckuva lot. Most people know the basics of the stock market. “Buy low sell high”, undervalued…
Coder’s Eyeball
I think I have coder’s eyeball. OK, so I just coined that term myself, but after weeks of trying to write a rather involved extension in a very large, very convoluted, object-oriented PHP system, I think my eyes are suffering and need a break. For anyone who works with OO PHP projects, I don’t personally…
Nicecast is…. Nice!
I listen to a lot of streaming music — especially when I’m on a project where I’m writing code. I go into the office, put on my headphones, plunge into the code, and at the end of the day, I take off the headphones, look at my progress, and I’m usually surprised at how much…
The debian apt-get utopia myth
Debian users love the apt package manager. In fact, I’m pretty sure that *every* time I’ve asked a Debian user why they use Debian, they’ve answered with one word: “apt”. They take great joy in picking on Red Hat newbies who have no clue what they’re doing and are subsequently taking their lumps in RPM-land….
PHP Object Casting is Cool
I’m from the PHP 3 school of PHP coding. Before that Java was shoved down my throat, and I was happy to be away from project management type stuff and back into Perl and PHP. Doing nothing but procedural coding for a while helped me understand more where an object could really be useful, but…
Now I’m a Roofer, Too
Ugh. My new wife woke me up this morning with news that a small drip in our roof that was just discovered yesterday had graduated into a larger problem. What we thought we had under control with a simple bucket requires 7 buckets today. Two in the kitchen, and 5 in the crawl space over…
Congratulations, Yahoo – I’m sorry for your loss
Well, Yahoo just lost me as a loyal user. From now on, my home page is going to be the Google personalized home page (did you know you can create a homepage at google? It’s cool). For about 6 years now, I’ve had a My Yahoo! page. A couple of years ago, they got a…
Random Stuff, and testing trackback
I’m a blog dope. I don’t have a great understanding of what trackback is all about. However, my buddy Steve wrote a sentiment regarding the recent Tannenbaum talk here that we often look at eachother and repeat, so I thought I’d track back to it here. We’ll see what happens. 2 mins later: UPDATE –…