A Day in Paradise

Greg Stein (Director of the Apache Software Foundation) was Mugged – Accepting Donations

Last Friday night Greg Stein was mugged and seriously injured outside of his home in Mountain View, CA.

They gave Greg a black eye and a serious laceration to the head which required numerous stiches. Apparently, he was bleeding profusely when the ambulance came.

The doctors were worried about his head wound and he spent the entire night under observation and went through numerous CAT scans.

The fund is set up to raise $2k to send Greg on a vacation, overflow will go to the ASF. Greg’s work on mod_dav and subversion are IMHO some of the most useful features of Apache2.

More information at the fund’s google group.

Nice free enterprise search solution from IBM and Y! The 5 minute flash walk-through shows some of the neat features. There aren’t a whole lot of technical details other that it’s Lucene based.

As seen on UB

Great for front controllers – courtesy of Wordpress

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule (.*) /frontcontroller.php?foo=$1 [L]