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…
Category: Technology
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…
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…
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 –…
Tannenbaum Speaks at Princeton
Andrew Tannenbaum is a highly acclaimed lecturer, researcher, and author on various topics in computer science, most notably operating systems. His volumes on the design of modern operating systems are used in many if not most university systems courses. This is not to say he isn’t controversial, however. His public debates with Linus Torvalds on…
We gotta get outta this place, if it’s the last thing we ever do…
I spent my boyhood in New Jersey, kindergarten through 10th grade. Then I moved to Texas to finish up high school. Since I graduated HS, I’ve lived in Philadelphia, NYC, went back to Texas, Baton Rouge, and I’m now back in NJ. As a former stockbroker, my clientele spanned the entire country; Minnesota, Hawaii, Florida,…
Tired… So Tired…
I’m tired of Linux reviews. I’m tired of Linux zealots who say disingenuous things like “if the choice is between Open or Closed Source solutions, the answer is easy” in the context of a discussion about things they have no clue about. I’m tired of hearing about what Linux has to do to “hit the…
Blog spam
Should I just turn comments off on my blog? What are you doing about blog spam? Do you know what blog spam is? If you don’t, and you have a blog, you should! Here’s an example: I posted an entry a couple of hours ago. I just looked at my blog page, and lo and…
They say Vista will be better
I just read a PC World article that says, well… this: My PC’s firewall, antivirus scanner, spyware remover, pop-up blocker, and spam filter all agree: Windows is sorely lacking in PC security. That situation may not change until Windows Vista (formerly Longhorn) comes out sometime next year. This implies that things will, in fact, get…