posts brought to you by the category “php”
Das eez kaput! Sometime around 2002 I spaced the entire database table that mapped individual entries to categories. Such is life. What follows is a random sampling of entries that were associated with the category. Over time, the entries will be updated and then it will be even more confusing. Wander around, though, it's still a fun way to find stuff.
Using Perl code from PHP
I woke up, every morning, at 06H30 on the dot.
David Cantrell : File::Find::Rule::Permissions.pm
Tim Bray : Why XML doesn't suck
If I had to pick the biggest contribution XML has made to the world, this would be it - forcing people to learn the issues and start doing the right thing.
Matt Biddulph : The Semantic Web, RDF and perl
Political art or brain fart?
Tim Bray : "Do we conclude that nobody will ever want to navigate information spaces using an immersive-VR approach?"
Me : Net::Blogger.pm 0.85
Ken Y. Clark : SQL::Translator.pm
This module attempts to simplify the task of converting one database create syntax to another through the use of Parsers (which understand the source format) and Producers (which understand the destination format).
Thirteen years ago, Marc Lepine shot his way in to an engineering class at the University of Montréal.
Me : Eatdrinkfeelgood 1.1
Tatsuhiko Miyagawa : Template::Plugin::HTML::Template.pm
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : factotum
Factotum \Fac*to"tum\, n.; pl. {Factotums} (-t?mz). [L., do everything; facere to do + totus all : cf. F. factotum. See {Fact}, and {Total}.] A person employed to do all kinds of work or business. --B. Jonson.
web1913
factotum n : a servant employed to do a variety of jobs
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : handmelon
Proper word for American football, as it is played more with hands than feet and the "ball" is melon-shaped, instead of being of proper spherical shape balls should be.
ex. Handmelon is a sport popular only in the United States.
Ikebe Tomohiro : Apache::RSS.pm
"generates RSS output of directory Index. Just like a mod_index_rss."
LDP : Announcing the Lampadas Project
"Lampadas is an interactive environment for writing, managing, publishing and reading documentation. ... Lampadas supports any format the author is comfortable writing in. Rather than forcing authors to standardize on a tool, Lampadas supplies the meta-data shortcomings of the author's choice."
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : torrible
mixture of terrible and horrible
ex. I feel so torrible today
Donald A. Norman : Just because it's funny doesn't mean it isn't real
"The New 7 series BMW no longer has all those knobs and buttons that clutter up the dashboard - you know, where each knob does one thing that you can count on. Instead, it has a single controller located on the center console that "functions similarly to a computer mouse." It drives a display in the center of the dashboard. It is called the iDrive: i for "intuitive") (Don't get me started on intuitive. You know what's intuitive? Fear of heights. Everything else we call intuitive, such as walking or using a pencil took years of practice. Is that what we want? A control that takes years of practice?)"
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : desideratum
Desideratum \De*sid`e*ra"tum\, n.; pl. {Desiderata}. [L., fr. desideratus, p. p. See {Desiderate}.] Anything desired; that of which the lack is felt; a want generally felt and acknowledge.
web1913
desideratum n : something desired as a necessity; "the desiderata for a vacation are time and money"
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If David wants bunnies
Edward Bilodeau : The PaperPDA
"As you can see, the form factor of the PaperPDA has several advantages to it. It is highly flexible. You can bend it, fold it, crumple it up, and it still works. It weighs almost nothing. And it fits perfectly in a pocket. If you encounter a smaller pocket, you can just fold it over again. Power consumption is zero."
Laura Calder : Recipe for boredom
N.Y. Times : "Last winter Louis Rastelli, a struggling Montreal publisher, found himself suddenly in need of a brand-new distribution method.
Canada’s major bookstore chain decided that stocking the literary zines and chapbooks that Rastelli publishes had become too much of a hassle, and he was increasingly unable to get his product into the hands of its intended audience. Rastelli’s solution: buy some surplus cigarette machines – the Canadian government had recently restricted them in restaurants, and so they were in plentiful supply – and retrofit them into coin-operated delivery devices for art, literature and music. The ‘‘Distroboto’’ was born." see also :
The Book Drop
and
The Poetry Dispenser
(thanks to
ed
and
jessamyn
, respectively)
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is urbane
| source : web1913 | Urbane \Ur*bane"\, a. [See {Urban}.] Courteous in manners; polite; refined; elegant. | source : wn | urbane adj 1: showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience; "his polished manner"; "maintained an urbane tone in his letters" [syn: {polished}, {refined}, {svelte}] 2: characterized by tact and propriety 3: marked by wide-ranging knowledge and appreciation of many parts of the world arising from urban life and wide travel; "the sophisticated manners of a true cosmopolite"; "urbane and pliant...he was at ease even in the drawing rooms of Paris" [syn: {sophisticated}] | source : hitchcock | Urbane, courteous
American Airlines flight #587 information : 1.800/ 245.0999
Movable Thoughts #10-11
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is starveling
| source : web1913 | Starveling \Starve"ling\, n. [Starve + -ling.] One who, or that which, pines from lack or food, or nutriment. Old Sir John hangs with me, and thou knowest he is no starveling. --Shak. | source : web1913 | Starveling \Starve"ling\, a. Hungry; lean; pining with want. | source : wn | starveling n : someone who is starving (or being starved)
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is doughty
| source : web1913 | Doughty \Dough"ty\, a. [Compar. {Doughtier}; superl. {Doughtiest}.] [OE. duhti, dohti, douhti, brave, valiant, fit, useful, AS, dyhtig; akin to G. t["u]chtig, Dan. dygtig, Sw. dygdig virtuous, and fr. AS. dugan to avail, be of use, be strong, akin to D. deugen, OHG. tugan, G. taugen, Icel. & Sw. duga, Dan. due, Goth. dugan, but of uncertain origin; cf. Skr. duh to milk, give milk, draw out, or Gr. ? fortune. ?.] Able; strong; valiant; redoubtable; as, a doughty hero. Sir Thopas wex [grew] a doughty swain. --Chaucer. Doughty families, hugging old musty quarrels to their hearts, buffet each other from generation to generation. --Motley. Note: Now seldom used, except in irony or burlesque. | source : wn | doughty adj : resolute and without fear [syn: {fearless}, {hardy}]
Brian Aker : myperl
"creates a poor man's stored procedure for MySQL using perl. You can store perl in a column (or just pass it directly to the myperl function). ... myperl() be default only returns 254 characters. Making this do more is in the next list of things to happen. At the moment most calls to modules causes mysql to core (Something is up with the loader). Keep in mind that this is still experimental. At the moment I bet this has a bug or two in it and I have no idea exactly how fast this is. If people find it useful I will probably add more to it. Have fun."
Walt A. Boring : phpHtmllib
"is a set of PHP classes and library functions to help facilitate building, debugging, and rendering of HTML and XHTML. It provides a mechanism to output perfectly indented/readable HTML/XHTML source, and a programmatic API to generating HTML/XHTML on the fly."
Update : Who mentioned paying 40, 000$ for a CMS?
The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide : Printserving
The Semantic Web weirdos have posted the WordNET lexical reference
as a series of RDF files.
Wired on something call venture philanthropy
"We're in both worlds already. We can talk the business BS. Plus, today culture is part of the economic machine. And we've discovered that business is also a big part of art."
see also :
Initial Public Art Opening
Michel Rodrigues : Simple XML Transformation with Perl
83% of Canadians have a uniform fetish.
Jan Mlodozeniec, 1929 - 2000
PHP Builder : An ODBC Socket Server
"One machine will have the operating system of your choice, the web server of your choice and PHP on it. The other machine will have Windows, MS Access, and ODBC on it. The socketserver on the Windows machine will look for connections on a TCP/IP port, PHP will generate XML commands and send them to the socket server. The socket server will then execute the SQL statements in the commands and pass another XML document back to PHP. Finally, PHP will parse the XML document and manipulate the resulting recordset."
suricate
"brings the meerkat open wire service into the realm of handheld devices, wireless email appliances, and interactive pagers. I wrote suricate to address the needs of people that have email provided on their hand held devices but no web access. suricate will push the wire service content to the user."
If anything is going to drive me away from computers
it's the fact that my handwriting just sucks these days.
Monkeyfist
The Spire Project
"Don't talk to me of passive absorption and serendipity. I want results. Answers. Even to questions I can't quite articulate." via
the tireless one
.
Thomas L. Friedman
"I visited Microsoft four years ago to interview some of its top managers. I asked them how big their Washington office was. They proudly answered that they had no Washington office. Underlying their answer was a contempt for Washington, and for government in general -- a contempt that runs right through the high-tech community. The techies have no sense of what it is about the U.S. system that enables them to do what they do. It's not just about electrons and bandwidth. It's also about rules and institutions."
Le Devoir : Wal-Mart «adopte» 163 écoles
"Je trouve d'une naïveté éhontée les gens qui oeuvrent dans l'éducation et qui croient que tout cela ne relève que de la généreuse contribution! Les entreprises ne cherchent que leur intérêt, rien de plus."
Introducing the iCar
"Why settle for an opaque automobile when you can get the iMac on wheels?"
When Good Smurfs Go Bad
The Apper
is a cool launcher utility that brings some level of file-name completion to the Mac. (I really hope Apple manages to pull this Unix thing off.)
PHP Knowledge Base
<a href = "http://e-gineer.com/e-gineer/phpkb/view.phtml/qid/657">How can I check if the user has Javascript enabled in their browser?</a>
What is surfmenu?
In case you needed a reason to get more exercise
office towers in New York, Boston and Chicago will start airing "content" (read : advertising) on flat panel displays in their elevators.
Today is St. Jean Baptiste Day!
St. Jean Baptiste Day is the national holiday in Quebec. For some people it's a heavy-duty day of deeply-political nationalism. For most people, though, it's a day to
celebrate what a cool and funky place Quebec is
and that summer it finally here!
The End of Violence in Vancouver
Beyerstein said it is easy to place signs in banks or at building entrances to warn people they are under surveillance, but it is much more difficult to inform people when an entire district is covered by CCTV.
The amount of signage required to counter this would be enormous, and would itself leave citizens with the feeling that they have entered the world of The Prisoner.
My initial reaction to this was something like abject horror. Then it occurred to me that the silver lining might be the possibility of having access to a sane database interface in PHP for the first time.