Monthly Archives: August 2004

Fall 2004 Classes Start Tonight

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 … Continue reading

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Document Your Project Already! (Part 3)

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. Continue reading

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BBEdit 8.0 Released

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.

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Document Your Project Already! (Part 2)

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

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Document Your Project Already!

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!) Continue reading

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Paid Fall 2004 Fees

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.

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Object-Oriented … News?

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 … Continue reading

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Savant: Good Words from Norbert

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 … Continue reading

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Rasmus Mentions PEAR

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, … Continue reading

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Multibyte Characters and Wikis

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 … Continue reading

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