This article on Gadgetopia links to my content management post I made yesterday (er, today?) and brings up a drawback to my system that I forgot to include: searching. Within the relational database world, you can do precise, structured queries against specific fields in your tables. In a properly normalized database, this is all-powerful. However,… Continue reading Search Snafu
Category: Computers
Thoughts on Content Management
I’ve been thinking a long time about content management systems (which isn’t surprising considering developing various types of website CMSes is what I do for a living), how they pertain to weblogs and similar types of content, how to implement them in PHP and MySQL, and what type of system I would really like to… Continue reading Thoughts on Content Management
NetOffice
Installed NetOffice, PHP project management software, this morning to better manage my various Web projects. Once it’s up and working, it’s a pretty slick piece of software. Had some trouble installing it and getting it to work initially, though. First, after it’s installed, it prompts to you log in to start using the software—with a… Continue reading NetOffice
Beer Brewing Software
For some reason that I now forget I started digging around online tonight to see what the current state of beer brewing software looks like. The last time I’d played with any such software, I installed the evaluation version of ProMash on my old computer and tried it out. It’s probably the best piece of… Continue reading Beer Brewing Software
C-64 Emulator for PalmOS
It had to happen, read about it here—there’s a free Commodore 64 emulator for PalmOS. I’d love to download this for my Clié, but alas, it requires PalmOS version 5 and my Clié only has a version 4 variant.
More PHP Errata
Again reading Larry Ullman’s PHP Advanced and finding it okay, but I came across another glaring error. On page 169, in the discussion about variable order, Ullman’s got the variable order entirely backwards. The out-of-the-box order for PHP variables is EGPCS (which refer to Environment, Get, Post, Cookie, and Server variables), meaning that PHP processes… Continue reading More PHP Errata
MySQL’s SET
I was just thinking today that MySQL’s SET datatype has to be the most underused feature of MySQL, and how I could implement a multiple category system for my ebooks using it, when I got the MySQL AB Newsletter and lo and behold, it has an article on using SET. I love fun coincidences like… Continue reading MySQL’s SET
From the Trenches
My day at work was certainly a tech support nightmare. Get this: as soon as I walk in, I’m told the server is down. Thinking (hoping) they meant the connection to the internet is down, I clarified the issue. Nope. The server. Damn. This is the main file/print server that everyone in the office uses… Continue reading From the Trenches
Errata
I was reading through PHP Advanced this evening and on page 63, came across something incorrect (regarding objects in PHP): PHP does not support multiple levels of inheritance, so you could not make a Grandchild class that extends a Child class that in itself is an extension of the Parent class. Actually, PHP does support… Continue reading Errata
Kon-Tiki
We’re heading up for a day trip to Portland tomorrow for Kaitlyn’s post-op visit to the eye doctor to check how her eyes have progressed since surgery. Have to get up at 6 am though, that’s a bummer. Here’s a link too geeky/cool to pass up: The Contiki Operating System and Desktop Environment. It’s an… Continue reading Kon-Tiki