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I think this has been updated. Worth bookmarking, anyhow.
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The Jodrell Bank telescopes are twittering what they’re looking at. Beautiful. Devices talking to devices.
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will_paginate gets a nice big 2.0 update, but alters the API. This needs looking into, really.
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“the idea of a page has such a deeply rooted connotation in centuries of printed matter that Web novices tend to think of Web pages as simply finite blocks of text and images, with functionality and interactions as only superficial garnishes.”
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Quite remarkable; alternate-history of SF as if it were all written by Chinese authors. Inventive, witty, deft.
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“I hate the term User Generated Content… I consider it a pejorative that reveals a lot about the person saying it. It makes members of your site feel like dutiful robots, crapping content that you convert into cash.” Great article!
Mac OSX 10.4 still only ships with PHP4, which is fine and all, but I eventually bit the bullet and decided to install PHP5.
The most immediately obvious way to do this is with Marc Liyanage’s excellent installer. I unzipped, installed the .pkg, and rebooted Apache.
Except Apache didn’t want to reboot. Apache refused to start, actually. Looked like a potential crisis!
Fortunately, a few minutes of digging found the solution. Pretty obvious, really:
you can’t load both mod_php4 and mod_php5 Apache modules at the same time.
I had mod_php4 enabled already. By commenting out the lines referring to it, Apache started up just fine, running PHP 5. Crisis averted.
Water Walk
17 May 2007
John Cage performs his composition “Water Walk” on popular 1960s US TV show “I’ve Got A Secret”. As music, it actually works well; as performance, it works even better. There’s something almost surreal about putting a figure like Cage on light entertainment show, but it makes me wonder if anyone would do something like this nowadays. Via Nicky, via boingboing.
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If you are doing scheduled builds or continuous integration, and those builds are visible to your client or boss or whoever, this should be painfully obvious, but even if you aren’t: the current version in source control is the current version, full stop.
The hellish state of PHP frameworks
15 May 2007
As you probably know, when it comes to code (both in and out of work) I’m a Ruby and Rails guy. It’s not necessary to go into much detail “why”: the expressiveness of Ruby and the dynamism and speed of development in Rails are big wins for me.
But it’s not always possible – or practical – to knock out Rails applications for every task, and right now, I need to deploy something in PHP. Something very simple, that doesn’t warrant the deployment overheads of Rails (which we’re all aware of, right?)
Refusing to get caught up in WordPress if at all possible (not going into that again, either), I set out to look for a nice, well-documented, lightweight PHP web framework.
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Blimey. Wasn’t expecting that at all; I’m hoping the site will remain (as they suggest) a “stand-alone operation”.
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A great idea. And, if the gear arrives, I’m planning on taking part.
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More Peepcode goodness. I really don’t get on with Prototype (I’m a jQuery man, myself), so this will probably be worthwhile.