Archive for June, 2006

PHP CMS Historical Notes

Wednesday, June 28th, 2006

I was just browsing through my OLD advogato profile and thought I would link to these two posts (from mid 2002) which talk about one of the many CMSs which forked off the original PHPNuke code base.
Entry 1
Entry 2
More thoughts on PHPNuke
Some day I’ll write some articles on the history of CMSs in PHP

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Off to Norway

Wednesday, June 21st, 2006

I’m taking off on 7am flight to norway in 3 hours. Looking forward to seeing all the eZ folks at the conf as well as all the geeks coming up for PHPVikinger!
See you there!

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I’m back baby! Real as life and 6 times faster!

Thursday, June 15th, 2006

Before I start, I want to thank Stella and the kids for standing by me during this trying time, my mother-in-law for her help and letting me use her setup. Mom and Dad for not worrying when I’m not online. Web.de for providing the list of the cheapest places to get onto the information […]

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TODAY IS THE DAY!!!!!

Wednesday, June 14th, 2006

You know they say that people who have sex more often are happier.
They did a study and they got 4 guys who had sex at different intervals and asked them all how often they had sex and how they felt.
First guy: I have sex every day and I feel pretty good
Second guy: I have […]

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Lessons Learnt from Dialup #2

Tuesday, June 13th, 2006

Skype is awesome! I had a good conversation on a 2kb/s connection
Skype is weird! It delivers messages hours after they are sent. I’m online for an hour and suddenly I get a message that was sent 3 hours ago
I wish more programming packages had good offline documentation. a tarball would do. PHP and PEAR packages […]

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Go Ghana!

Monday, June 12th, 2006

No offense to all my italian friends, but I’m rooting for Ghana today.
I don’t know if it comes from my sympathy for the under-dog, or from having played football with kids in Uganda and knowing that the game means so much to them that they’ll play barefoot, and still out run, and out […]

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Lessons Learnt from Dialup #1

Monday, June 12th, 2006

Large IMAP folders SUCK! (Thunderbird isn’t that smart in handling them either)
Remember those people who sent you huge images when you were on dialup in 1996? Well, they are still doing it (you know who you are!!!)
If you are in Germany and need quick dialup web.de is a lifesaver (thanks Stefan)
Any Company that wants to […]

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Doing Cool Things with VIM - Yanking

Saturday, June 10th, 2006

<rant>
The worst thing about the majority of VIM tutorials/books is that they start in the most obvious place. If I’m interested in a text editor and after reading the first chapter of a book all I know how to do is move the cursor around, I’m not going to be that impressed. Lets face it, […]

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The wurst way to go?

Friday, June 9th, 2006

The wurst way to go?�|�Reuters.com
Not sure about that… certainly the wurst article title pun of the day.

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Firefox Sucks

Friday, June 9th, 2006

My laptop gets a little hot in the warm weather, and Firefox STOPS working and pegs my CPU.
I’m downloading 1.5.0.3 to see hf that makes any difference, until then I’m using Internet Explorer

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I am on dialup

Wednesday, June 7th, 2006

Please enter condolances below…

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