Monthly Archives: November 2004

Core Knowledge Foundation

Posted on Sun, 28 Nov, 2004 by pmjones

The Core Knowledge Foundation outlines preschool and K-8 curricula. My God, this is fantastic. Take a look at the 6/7/8th grade outline. At first I thought it was 10/11/12th grade. I mean, Shakespeare and Mythology in the 6th grade? I … Continue reading →

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DB_Table: Pre-Defined Per-Query Fetchmodes

Posted on Thu, 18 Nov, 2004 by pmjones

Ian Eure just provided a patch to DB_Table that is genius in its simplicity. While I have not tested it, the patch looks like it will cause no trouble. In short, in your predefined SQL queries, you can specify that … Continue reading →

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Paying for Performance

Posted on Thu, 18 Nov, 2004 by pmjones

The inestimable Rum Smuggler contacted me via private channels to point out Paying for Performance from the Marginal Revolution. Every three weeks students are tested and if they improve they are paid on the order of $20.  Control groups are … Continue reading →

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Americans for Fair Tax

Posted on Thu, 18 Nov, 2004 by pmjones

Visit the Americans for Fair Tax site right now. It’s essentially a 24% national sales tax with a very high “deductible” (effectively, you don’t have to pay it if you are at or below poverty level). Here’s a thumbnail sketch: … Continue reading →

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YaWiki 0.18 alpha released

Posted on Wed, 10 Nov, 2004 by pmjones

YaWiki 0.18 alpha is ready for download. The change notes are: * updated to take advantage of Text_Wiki 0.22 and later * configuration change: Text_Wiki parsing and rendering is much more configurable via [Text_Wiki_*] groups in Yawp.conf.php (instead of via … Continue reading →

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Savant and The Right Reverend Jim

Posted on Tue, 09 Nov, 2004 by pmjones

A response to RevJim, who has a thoughtful and intelligent critique of Savant, especially as regards Smarty. Continue reading →

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New Text_Wiki Mailing List

Posted on Mon, 08 Nov, 2004 by pmjones

If you use the Text_Wiki package you can now subscribe to its dedicated mailing list at users-subscribe@textwiki.tigris.org. One of the inconveniences of PEAR is that is has no package-specific mailing lists. Thus, if you want to talk about a specific … Continue reading →

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Many-to-Many: The Tyranny of Structurelessness

Posted on Sun, 07 Nov, 2004 by pmjones

Clay Shirky at Many-to-Many link to The Tyranny of Structurelessness. The article points out that there is no such thing as a “structureless” group. This has implications for emergent phenomena, which I have blogged about before (c.f. the post on … Continue reading →

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Savant version 2.3.1 released

Posted on Sat, 06 Nov, 2004 by pmjones

This release covers for the broken 2.3.0 release and adds a few minor bugfixes; also, why I agree with Coggeshall-2000, not Coggeshall-2004. Continue reading →

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DB_Table and Oracle Support

Posted on Thu, 04 Nov, 2004 by pmjones

For as powerful Oracle is reputed to be, it seems to have one awful restriction: 30-character max for table, field, index, and sequence names. Are other RDBMSes this way? Continue reading →

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