Computer Languages History Timeline
From the Computer Languages History site comes an impressive computer languages timeline chart. It’s as much a language family tree as it is a timeline. Very nice, though a little hard to read.
View ArticlePHP Development Hint
Here’s a general hint for PHP development: A quick and easy way to check for syntax or compile errors without uploading the PHP script to the Web server and testing online through a browser is via the...
View ArticleSearch Patch
While waiting to find out if my hosting provider will change the minimum fulltext word length for MySQL, here’s what I’ve done in the meantime to deal with viable three-character search terms. First, I...
View ArticleoverLIB
Pointer to a totally excellent JavaScript library for creating popups: overLIB. I’ve been using it the last few days to put together a dynamic drop-down menu for a Web project at work. And I’ve used it...
View ArticleCOBOL
From Tim Bray tonight comes this amazing fact: There are five billion new lines of COBOL getting created every year, and there are (wait for it) 220 billion lines of COBOL in production. (Holy cow, now...
View ArticlePHP code rant
This is a mini-rant on PHP that can be safely avoided by non geek types. This post over on PHP Everywhere caught my attention, vis-a-vis programming semantics and practice. Basically, inside a switch...
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PHP Suggest
Over on php.net, they announced a full implementation of a search field suggestion box: The function list suggestions we started to test a year ago seemed to be working better as some bugs were found...
View ArticleAmazon 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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