Archive for March, 2005

End the IRS — Vote for the Fair Tax

Thursday, March 31st, 2005 (07:44)

George Will talks about the Fair Tax.

Database Portability (Part 4)

Wednesday, March 30th, 2005 (10:16)

Dealing with case-sensistivity in searches, and a bleg (blog-beg) for hints.

Solar 0.0.5 Released

Monday, March 28th, 2005 (16:20)

This release includes an important component, the “Solar_App” class. It takes some superficial hints from Ruby on Rails (but is definitely not comparable). Read on for more.

BBEdit 8.1 Adds Subversion Supprt

Monday, March 28th, 2005 (15:16)

I am downloading it now, will report more info on it later. You can download the BBEdit 8.1 update from here.

Database Portability (Part 3)

Friday, March 18th, 2005 (14:44)

In this final portion, I address the portability of commands and services between different database backends, and conclude with reasons why portability may or may not matter to your specific application.

Database Portability (Parts 1 and 2)

Tuesday, March 15th, 2005 (13:10)

An alternative to what appear to be common practices when it comes to data type portability in PHP. Parts 1 and 2 of a 3-part article covering API, data type, and commands & service portability.

Buy Stuff and Save the World

Sunday, March 13th, 2005 (12:12)

Via Ryan King, we have a link to David Brin and how global capitalism is a force for world peace. To which I say:
Yay captalism! Yay globalism! Yay for the bourgeious elite! Without the rich (for whom sellers compete by lowering prices and increasing quality), goods and services cannot become cheap enough [...]

PDO at wiki.cc

Thursday, March 10th, 2005 (11:26)

Good docs, and wonderful introspection news at the end.

Quick Hits: DB_Table, Text_Wiki

Monday, March 7th, 2005 (17:32)

I just released the first 1.0.0 stable version of DB_Table, and released RC2 of Text_Wiki earlier today. That’s another two things I don’t need to think about any more. :-)
Now that I think about it, it’s been a good couple of days for getting software out the door. I guess this is one [...]

Savant3: Second Development Release

Monday, March 7th, 2005 (09:46)

Savant3 version 3.0.0dev2 is out; read on for change notes and future plans.