Paul M. Jones

Solar 1.0.0alpha5 has been released, with a few bugfixes and one change. The change notes are below. Also of note, I have created separate "alpha" and "beta" branches, so we can continue bugfix releases on the alpha side while not having to release new beta features.

Solar_Form

[FIX] Form attributes for id, name, and class [...]

File this under “nothing hotter than a woman putting fire and steel on target”.
Men do not want to be princes. Princes are born into success, men make their own. We want women who share that same ethic, however it is success is defined. It’s just not sexy to date a helpless princess with an aversion [...]

“This system is insane. It is fragmented to the point of incoherence. Record-keeping is stuck in the 1960s. Communication is stuck in the 1980s. None of the systems talks to the others. Everyone reinvents the wheel at every stage of the process. There is no pricing transparency.
“In a sane, modern system, I wouldn't have to [...]

I am no fan of Franken, but credit where credit is due:
Noting that he received a copy of the Constitution when he was sworn in as a senator, he proceeded to read it to Kris, emphasizing this part: “no Warrants shall issue but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing [...]

Nothing says “a free Republic” like State-sponsored media:
Obama open to newspaper bailout bill

The president said he is “happy to look at” bills before Congress that would give struggling news organizations tax breaks if they were to restructure as nonprofit businesses.
“I haven’t seen detailed proposals yet, but I’ll be happy to look at them,” Obama told [...]

So much for the “last alpha release” of the Solar Framework for PHP 5. ;-) The alpha4 release corrects a dozen small bugs so that users don’t have to wait for the beta in about 7 weeks.

Paterson grew up in poverty on the Western frontier. She had only two years of formal schooling. But she learned from her own experience, as well as her encyclopedic knowledge of history, that economic success results from individual initiative, not federal management. As an author, she also knew what makes a plausible story and could [...]

Because it worked so well last time.
To wit, what does it mean for the world economy if America now has its first protectionist President since Herbert Hoover?
The smell of trade war is suddenly in the air. Mr. Obama slapped a 35% tariff on Chinese tires Friday night, and China responded on the weekend by threatening [...]

Credit where credit is due, folks.
Well I’d like to take this moment to congratulate the President for making a decision to put the safety of our nation first, instead of internationalism. Just as when he ordered the engagement of the Somali pirate kidnappers in April, Mr. Obama has again sent our special operations teams [...]

This is just dumb. Protectionism doesn’t help anyone, especially not even the people of the country engaging in it. Smoot-Hawley, anyone?
FT.com / China - US tyre duties spark clash.