Monthly Archives: October 2004

DB_Table goes “beta” in new 0.22.0 release

Posted on Wed, 27 Oct, 2004 by pmjones

Actively looking for testers on Oracle and Microsoft SQL; read on for more info about DB_Table. Continue reading →

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Belmont Club

Posted on Mon, 25 Oct, 2004 by pmjones

Wretchard at Belmont Club is a great writer and analyst. Read this post right away. It is interesting to compare Marine preparations to assault Fallujah in April 2004 with those apparently under way today, just months later. The Marine methods … Continue reading →

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Adam Smith and Charles Darwin

Posted on Mon, 25 Oct, 2004 by pmjones

This brief entry from Cafe Hayek about the Scottish Enlightenment is, ah, enlightening, especially when read in the context of emergent behaviors. About Stewart’s intellectual biography of Adam Smith, Gould has this to say: “[Darwin] imbibed the basic belief of … Continue reading →

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Savant: Revoking the 2.3.0 release

Posted on Wed, 20 Oct, 2004 by pmjones

Or, “how __call() bit me in the ass” — and an apology. Continue reading →

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YaWiki article in International PHP Magazine

Posted on Wed, 20 Oct, 2004 by pmjones

I’m published! :-) My article about YaWiki is in the new issue of  International PHP Magazine (released today). Everybody go out and buy a copy.

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Savant version 2.3.0 now available

Posted on Tue, 19 Oct, 2004 by pmjones

Plugins can now be called as Savant2 methods when overload() is enabled. Read on for more! Continue reading →

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Yawp 1.0.4 Released, and Yawp2

Posted on Fri, 15 Oct, 2004 by pmjones

Turning off sessions, Yawp2 pre-work, and a question about AOP. Continue reading →

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Savant 2.2.0 released

Posted on Wed, 13 Oct, 2004 by pmjones

Savant2 now has support for exceptions and includes an example (optional!) compiler class. Continue reading →

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Tolerating violence in schools

Posted on Wed, 13 Oct, 2004 by pmjones

Walter Williams has something to say about school violence toleration. Here are the final parargraph: I say it’s cruel and unreasonable to permit school thugs to make schools unsafe and education impossible for everyone else. Short of measures to immediately … Continue reading →

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Nationalized Legal Care

Posted on Tue, 12 Oct, 2004 by pmjones

In response to the idea that the Gummint should nationalize “health care” (it’s really “medical care” but nobody ever says it that way) we have a great bit from code: theWebSocket; about how we need to nationalize legal care. We … Continue reading →

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