Paul M. Jones

I begin taking classes tonight. I had wanted to start with something, anything, other than the information systems course, becuase that’s all I’ve been doing for five years. But I wanted desperately to take the Research Methodology course from Emin Babakus, who was my boss for a time when I worked at FCBE, [...]

Your project work responsibilities do not end at the last ?> closing tag; when you volunteer to publish your project to the world, you are volunteering to be more than just a coder.

For those of us lucky enough to edit text on Mac OS X, Bare Bones Software has recently released BBEdit 8.0. Very nice improvements.

Writing documentation serves not only the user’s purposes; it is also in the interest of the coder for his own purposes.

Documentation of public PHP code is the responsibilty of the original coder. Not the users, not some third-party angel, not “the community” … the original coder. (Updated!)

For my first nine hours of tuition in the MBA program at the University of Memphis Fogelman College of Business, I paid $2794. Ouch.
And that doesn’t include books.
I simply must look in to financial aid.

Belmont Club writes about the rise of internet media (bloggers) over traditional big media gatekeepers:

So when the Swiftvets story shouldered its way into the public consciousness despite the best efforts of the “gatekeepers” to consign it to oblivion, it posed an existential challenge to the news foundries. For where one could come, more would follow. [...]

So I’m out ego-surfing for reviews of my Savant template system, and I find this from Norbert Mocsnik; he says he tried other template engines such as Smarty and Flexy, and then…

Conclusion: whatever template engine I’ve tried (it probably helped me a lot in developing applications faster BUT) all the time, I mean every time [...]

Here we have Rasmus talking about PHP.

Q: How will PEAR fit into the scheme of things with PHP?
A: I think it’s vital. We need a better way of installing applications. The PEAR installer is needed at this point, as it is hard to download any PHP application and just make it work. If we [...]

Reading planet-php.net today, there’s some talk about multi-byte encodings in PHP for internationalized text handling. This is one of the issues I have to deal with in the Text_Wiki project (say with a Hebrew wiki).
John Lim points out in this post that there are already good multibyte functions in PHP. This is fantastic [...]