Amazon Links
Astute readers will notice that I now have Amazon related links (books, actually) on some entries (spun out of my Amazon’s Web Services post). Hopefully they’re not too intrusive; I have them limited...
View ArticlePHP on .NET
Jeff Sandquist has a pointer to a video interview with two programmers that are writing a PHP compiler for Microsoft’s .NET Framework. The name of their project is Phalanger. That’s cool, I guess, if...
View Article20 questions
Okay, so I must be easily impressed. From this post on Boing Boing I found the 20Q.net site and began trying to stump the system. I can’t do it. No wonder; the guy that created the neural net (a type...
View ArticleBittyWiki
Just for grins, and to flex my PHP chops, I decided to write a simple wiki system. The catch, though, is to see how short I can make the actual program; I was inspired by this Shortest Wiki Contest,...
View ArticleMaybe it’s a good time to learn COBOL
Two interesting factoids from ADTmag’s 2005 Salary Survey: [Application Programmers] Programmers in mainframe and Unix shops make the most, topping $59,000 a year in base salary. By development...
View ArticleI’m no longer cutting edge on PHP
I just realized this; I haven’t used PHP 5 at all since it came out, so I’m terribly illiterate about this latest version of PHP. I still use PHP 4. That means I’m no longer cutting edge on PHP! Or...
View ArticlePHP contest: Texas Holdem
I thought this sounded interesting considering how popular poker is these days (you know who you are): PHP Editors is holding a PHP programming contest for a Texas Holdem game. I might try it out. It...
View ArticleBad PHP! Bad!
If you’re familiar with web programming and AJAX and PHP, check out this item about Client-side PHP on The Daily WTF. Go ahead, take a look. I’ll wait. Done? Good. Now, if you’re familiar with what’s...
View ArticleCommodore 64 emulator… in Flash
Okay, geek levels are off the charts on this one: FC64, a Commodore C64 emulator for Flash. And it’s open source. This is just mind boggling… …because, among other things, what this means is that I...
View ArticleAkismet
I’ve started using the spam-killing service Akismet to handle comment spam on my three blogs. That, and instituted a basic moderation system for comments. I can’t say as I’ve been dealing with as much...
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