Robert X. Cringely's column discusses Microsoft getting caught out yet again. One day...
I'm really liking Smarty at the moment. I have a lot of mixed code and presentation, although thankfully not much mixed logic and presentation. Smarty is helping to simplify and reduce the size of my inherited codebase no end. But to fit into my application framework, I really needed to use templates from strings. Not immediately available, but really easy to implement.
Caches...
22 Aug
Ok, so I now have a PHP cache (the excellent APC), a page output cache, and a function return cache. And then there's the FreeBSD filesystem cache, the HTTP Cache server, and the browser cache. I'm amazed anything ever updates.
Tips for PHP Libraries
14 Aug
Kellan Elliott-McCrea writes about A Few Tips for Writing Useful Libraries in PHP (via Simon Willison). I think Python's way more ``batteries included'', and the batteries are neatly stored on shelves instead of lying all over the floor. I'm getting a lot better at working around PHP4's deficiencies, but I'm still suffering from a few surprises. The lack of good PHP libraries is one of them, as addressed in Kellan's discussion.
Roleplaying addiction
10 Aug
Well, maybe not addiction. Yet. For a few days now, I've been reminiscing my roleplaying childhood, and getting all excited about d20, Wizards of the Coast's Open Gaming roleplaying system, on which Dungeons and Dragons 3rd(.5fth) edition. I've mostly drooled over Green Ronin Publishing's d20 resources, and ejoyed reading Monte Cook's web site.
GTKY: Food
10 Aug
Gary Colman posted another GTKY-esque (Getting To Know You) mail to the hivemind about food. Here're my answers.
Page slapping
10 Aug
Joi Ito (via Sam Ruby) is wondering whether Page slapping is rude. I've been thinking about doing something like this - using wiki or blog to write down ideas and arguments so that I can refer people to them, or just as something to quote when I don't feel like typing it all up. Rude, possibly, but I've never let that stop me before...
QOTD 07/08/2003
07 Aug
``I bet you now know more about newspapers that anyone would ever want to know.''
``SCO will be offering an introductory license [SCO Intellectual Property License for Linux®] price of $699 for a single CPU system through October 15th, 2003'', says Yahoo! biz in SCO Announces Intellectual Property License for Linux. They (along with FNB Card Division to a astronomically lesser extent) are obviously on crack.