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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...

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PHP 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...

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20 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...

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BittyWiki

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,...

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Maybe 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...

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I’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...

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PHP 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...

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Bad 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...

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Commodore 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...

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Akismet

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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