posts brought to you by the category “web design”
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.
Gavin Estey : “Then I felt creative and wrote a script to
work out who I've emailed recently and make sure that they're in my
[SpamAssassin] whitelist.”
Transactions with Class::DBI
10 Things about Perl and PHP
- the php developer's cookbook is good
- php is not bad but it's a giant pain in the ass. think: "oh yeah
right, php doesn't support multiple inheritance. what now..."
- php is a pain in the ass but it doesn't require launching a copy
of the perl interpreter everytime you want to do something.
- php doesn't have to launch the perl interpreter but then it also
can't do anything setuid (safe-mode might fix this but I don't think
so; not the way something like cgiwrap does anyway)
- php is not as powerful as mod_perl but, if we're being honest
about stuff here, isn't as flaky either.
- php doesn't have support for imagemagick
- php has this thing called the 'pear' which is supposed to be like
the cpan but isn't. additionally, the pear has to be installed with
mod_php at compile time; wtf knows.
- php does have a decent template system called 'Smarty'
- smarty, like all the other perl templating systems, has its own
'template' syntax which means if you want to use both you're limited
to doing variable substitutions.
- occassionally I've thought about rolling up my sleeves and
teaching 'Smarty' to handle Template::Toolkit style syntax (TT knows
how to DWIM with HTML::Template templates) but quickly get
discouraged by the volume of other things I have to do.
David Gelernter : What is this universal information
structure?
A narrative stream, which says, "Let me tell you a story. " The
system shows you a 3-D stream of electronic documents flowing through
time. The future (where you store your calendar, reminders, plans)
flows into the present (where you keep material you're working on
right now) and on into the past (where every e-mail message and
draft, digital photo, application, virtual Rolodex card, video and
audio clip and Web bookmark is stored, in addition to all those
calendar notes and reminders that used to be part of the future and
have since flowed into the past to be archived forever).
Me : ASCOPE::Term.pm 0.01
The world really doesn't need anymore terminal thingies, although
apparently I do.
see also :
docs
After 26 hours of journey and 6 hours of sleep, we're back.
Matthew Smith : Weblog tool using AxKit and PerForm
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is :
fantabulanistical
Used to describe something that's fantastic, wonderful,
amazing, bringing about many happy warm fuzzy feelings.
ex. Rob is an extremely fantabulanistical
person.
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : buss
A derivative of the word "bust." Used in place of any
verb.
ex. Buss me them shades, daddy-o. Hey, when you get a
chance can you buss me a beer from the fridge? Buss me that can of
Vienna Sausages there, pard.
see also :
buss dict-ified
Me : XML::Filter::XML_Directory_2RSS.pm 0.9.02
N.Y. Times 7#34;Something magical occurs when the pastry hits the
hot oil.
The creamy white vegetable shortening filling
liquefies, impregnating the sponge cake with its luscious vanilla flavor
(sure, it's imitation, but nevertheless potent). The cake itself softens
and warms, nearly melting, contrasting with the crisp, deep-fried crust
in a buttery and suave way."
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : vociferous
Vociferous \Vo*cif"er*ous\, a. [Cf. F. vocif[`e]re.] Making
a loud outcry; clamorous; noisy; as, vociferous heralds. --
{Vo*cif"er*ous*ly}, adv. -- {Vo*cif"er*ous*ness}, n.
web1913
vociferous adj : conspicuously and offensively loud; given
to vehement outcry; "blatant radios"; "a clamorous uproar"; "strident
demands"; "a vociferous mob" [syn: {blatant}, {clamant}, {clamorous},
{strident}]
wn
Blogue-Out : L'impact du lockout sur l'économie du quartier.
Greg Radzykewycz : Setting up a FreeBSD firewall with an IPSec
uplink
Jos Boumans : CPAN PLUS
"Being a novice to the Perl community and eager
for a challenging project to sink my teeth into, I offered to patch
CPAN.pm so that CPANTS could automatically build modules and test them. I
imagined this would be a simple role."
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : ubba
dubba
An idiot, a moron or fool.
ex. You were such an ubba dubba the time you forgot to
tie down the Christmas tree to the roof of our car.
The Art of Eating Quarterly
The World talks to Dimitri from Paris
Reference Model for an Open Archival Information System
"The purpose of this document is to define the
International Organization for Standardization (ISO) Reference Model for
an Open Archival Information System (OAIS). An OAIS is an archive,
consisting of an organization of people and systems, that has accepted
the responsibility to preserve information and make it available for a
Designated Community... The reference model addresses a full range of
archival information preservation functions including ingest, archival
storage, data management, access, and dissemination. It also addresses
the migration of digital information to new media and forms, the data
models used to represent the information, the role of software in
information preservation, and the exchange of digital information among
archives. It identifies both internal and external interfaces to the
archive functions, and it identifies a number of high-level services at
these interfaces..." (pdf)
"I'm sure you'll sleep better at night knowing this."
[T]here would be no entry for French beans, because in
English we call them haricots verts. The distinction (at least here in
California) is that "green beans" is often used to refer to Blue Lake
Beans, also called string beans; they are generally larger and more
succulent (unless overgrown). Where haricots verts are the more
expensive, tender skinny French green bush beans.
I received a nice note from Ronald Bourret in response to this
post.
Ameni Rozsa : "Radio was made for the lonely,
the displaced and the out of touch. Its sound is
our guardian angel, ubiquitous but unassuming. We move about our business
while radio patiently follows. Its persistence soothes even our most
sudden and sharp-edged isolations, softens the spaces between our souls
and the ever-distant walls. In these ways, radio is forgiving, and the
lonely are in need of forgiveness."
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is gustatory
| source : web1913 | Gustatory \Gusta*to*ry\, a.
Pertaining to, or subservient to, the sense of taste; as, the gustatory
nerve which supplies the front of the tongue. | source : wn | gustatory
adj : of or relating to gustation [syn: {gustative}, {gustatorial}]
Leah McClaren : "But what else could Bush say?
What else could people do but pray? The
frustration the young New Yorker felt was not with the President's
sentiment, but with the cheap, canned feeling of déjà vu it evoked. The
sense that we had been here many times before when, in fact, we had not."
www.freshports.org
David Helder : DiaWebLog
"is an interface between IRC and a web log. The
DiaWebLog consists of items. An item consists of a title, url, and
comments. Items are posted and edited by member of the IRC channel by
interacting with the DiaWebLogBot."
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is crux
| source : web1913 | Crux \Crux\ (kr[u^]ks), n.;
pl. E. {Cruxes} (-[e^]z), L. {Cruces} (kr[udd]"s[=e]z). [L., cross,
torture, trouble.] Anything that is very puzzling or difficult to
explain. --Dr. Sheridan. The perpetual crux of New Testament
chronologists. --Strauss. | source : wn | Crux n 1: a small conspicuous
constellation the the southern hemisphere in the Milky Way near Centaurus
[syn: {Southern Cross}, {Crux}, {Crux Australis}] 2: the most important
point [syn: {crux of the matter}]
Intellidimension : Experiments with Sample Calendar Data and
RDFQL
"In response to this posting of the rdf-calendar
newsgroup, I put together some simple examples of things we can do with
RDFQL and the sample calendar data. All examples use a few simples RDFQL
rules to dynamically map some of the properties in the source schema to
new properties that can be queried against."
Hats off to Sally Ann
Larry Wall : "What I will be revealing in these columns will be the
design of Perl 6.
Or more accurately, the beginnings of that
design, since the design process will certainly continue after I've had
my initial say in the matter. I'm not omniscient, rumors to the contrary
notwithstanding. This job of playing God is a little too big for me.
Nevertheless, someone has to do it, so I'll try my best to fake it. And
I'll expect all of you to help me out with the process of creating
history. We all have to do our bit with free will."
Teodor Zlatanov : Debugging Perl with ease
"walks you through both the built-in Perl
debugger and CPAN's Devel::ptkdb. The Perl debugger is powerful but
frustrating to navigate. CPAN's Devel::ptkdb, on the other hand, works
wonders by simplifying code debugging and thereby saving hours of your
precious time. In his discussion Zlatanov concentrates on explaining
debugging methods and general concepts rather than looking at specific
tools." (thanks
luke
)
Douglas Coupland : "These glass towers
strike many visitors as a key element of the
city's character. A friend from the States told his mother that Vancouver
was a city of glass buildings and no curtains, and everybody gets to
watch each other. A voyeur's paradise, so to speak. To Vancouverites,
these towers signify a few things: the power of global history to affect
our lives, and the average citizen's alienation from the civic political
process -- they're large glass totems that say "F-you" to us. At the same
time, these towers symbolize a New World breeziness and a gentle desire
for social transparency -- a rejection of class structures and hierarchy.
Regardless of any of that, it takes only a few weeks to build a
see-through. Citizens go away on holiday and return to a completely
different place. If only the people who build see-throughs could be in
charge of the city's roadworks."
Laurent Burgbacher : Progect Manager
"is a project management tool [ for the PalmOS ].
Why a "g" in Progect? Because in french, "g" has the same pronounciation
as "j", and it's a GPL application." Those wacky Open Source kids, always
thinking.
Miguel de Icaza : Let's Make Unix Not Suck
Jorn Barger : Scare the motherfuckers shitless