A Day in Paradise

Cross posting this nice article from Mike Kruckenberg into my PHP section, since it has some great things to keep in mind.
I recently went through this on a platform I was maintaining. The thing that bit me in the ass was some very silly ways previous programmers were parsing timestamp fields. Lesson: do it the […]

It’s the beginning of (Un)Conference season, PHP Appalachia is in full swing, and PHPWeekender.
PHP Weekender is an event organized by the PHP Dortmund crew. The event will take place on the 7th and 8th of October in the University of Dortmund. All the information is here.
Unfortunately, due to a very demanding month (relatives visiting, […]

From the Perl Foundation Blog

This week the Perl community lost one of its long time contributors, Nick Ing-Simmons, who died of a heart attack on Monday September 25th 2006.
Nick joined the Perl community in the early days of Perl 5. He consistently contributed to the perl5-porters mailing list and later became pumpkin for 5.003_02 where […]

Paper CD Case

Don’t know how long they are going to last… but you can view them all online here and here. Also got Family Guy, South Park and American Dad.

Just got back from watching Crank. What can you say? It’s craaaazzzzy! A couple quick comments.

The first time I’ve seen google product placement. Between the scenes there were shots from google maps where it panned across the city and then zoomed in on a street/car/house. In the corner was a “Maps provided by google” logo
Nokia, […]

We took the kids out to the park to have a bbq. While we were waiting for everyone to show up, Annie comes up and says
Annie: “I want to play goofball”
Stella: “goofball?”
Annie: “yes, where you have a stick and hit the little ball”
Stella: “You mean mini-golf?”
Annie: “Yes, mini-golf”

I’ve blogged about Shadow Falls a before, it’s an audio-drama which centers around an epic power struggle between good and evil which takes place in the mysterious town of Shadow Falls. Shadow Falls was created by Mark Yoshimoto Nemcoff and a large crew of actors and producers. The show has ramped up, and we’re now […]

This one is at least a little more coherent. I agree with what they say, the problem, is that what they say doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter if you think my website is ugly and because of all the ugly sites the internet sucks. What matters is that despite (and in some cases, because) of […]

A nice tutorial on GIT explains the development of the program, and Linux’s history.
Torvalds began working on Git as an interim solution to replace BitKeeper, which had previously been the primary source code tool in use by Linux kernel developers worldwide. Some members of the open source community felt that the BitKeeper license was not […]

and can’t log into the system!
Thankfully there is usually someone who has done this before you. I also took a quick look at the 3 tables on another development machine and compared the data. The tables in question are: ezuser , ezuser_role and ezrole - although I didn’t modify the ezrole table.
The EZP […]

After a week of intense work on EZP templates, it quickly becomes apparent where you have made mistakes with the designing of your templates. Most of this stuff is just common sense, if anyone has any other pointers please comment, or post URLs for where this has been discussed.
CSS Rocks
EZP works best with CSS based […]

On the heels of last night’s rant, here’s a list of the 50 Coolest Websites of 2006. Some of my favorites are among them including:
Podcast Pickle
The 9
YouTube (just uploaded a test video I made last week today, I’m starting a series of street musicians in frankfurt)
Kevin Sites
Human Clock
and of course MySpace

Sad news today, Robert Levin founder of Freenode (previously Open Projects Network) passed away after being hit by a car while riding his bike. Despite the controversies the surrounding the his operation of the two networks, the incredible effort that he made has helped millions of computer users and open-source projects around the world.
While he […]

PCWorld Author Dan Tynan, starts off his “25 Worst Website” list, with what I imagine he thinks is an insightful comment: “When it comes to the Web, hindsight is more like X-ray vision”. I’m not sure if Dan is ignorant, elitist or just suffering from radiation poisoning from over-exposure to X-ray vision, but this article […]