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Yes, Open Source Is Important

On February 13, 2009 By

I have a bit of a rant in me right now so you may want to duck and cover. Although I tend to dis­agree with some of the rabid and rather con­strain­ing ide­olo­gies in the open source com­mu­nity, I have always agreed with the basic issue that the source code should be open so that […]

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Mulling over a Web Trend

On January 30, 2009 By

I am run­ning more and more into peo­ple that per­ceive that many web sites are so heavy with Javascript that the site bogs down and bombs their web browser. It is my per­sonal belief that this is slightly skewed but it points out that many wish for sim­ple, fast sites. There are times when I […]

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Pownce Is Dead

On December 2, 2008 By

Well. Got an e-mail today telling me that Pownce had been bought by Six-Apart, the guys that bring us MovableType and a com­pete­tor to Pownce, Vox. Six-Apart is killing off Pownce in favor of Vox. I am assum­ing that they bought Pownce in part to get a new infu­sion of peo­ple into Vox and get […]

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I had fun today adding a microBlog to this site at /laconica/. It is called Laconica and is the basis for identi.ca which is an alter­na­tive to Twitter which I have men­tioned in ear­lier posts.

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Review: WordPress for iPhone

On July 23, 2008 By

I am writ­ing this review on my iPhone using the free WordPress app. Athough it cer­tainly will not become my pri­mary post­ing plat­form, I can see me using it more often than I ini­tially thought before down­load­ing it. With this I will be able to post to the blog while sit­ting out on the […]

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Learning PHP Data Objects by Dennis Popel, pub­lished by Packt Publishing (© 2007) ISBN-13: 978–1847192660

This is a good start for PDO. The exam­ples and method­ol­ogy used to present the con­cepts for using PDO were very use­ful. The book steps you from the basic use of PDO in chap­ter 2, through error han­dling and […]

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Rant: Form Follies

On July 8, 2008 By

Recently I ran across a blog that really got me going for a short time. It required Java, Javascript, and cook­ies includ­ing 3rd party cook­ies to view the web page. A friend of mine got sus­pi­cous of the site and asked me to look at it. What I dis­cov­ered was a lot of stu­pid­ity and […]

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Just a quick note that, although I have had a FriendFeed account for a while, I finally decided to get a bit seri­ous regard­ing using it. I am using the were­veal user name, no sur­prise. Since it is both a micro-blog and an aggre­ga­tor of other feeds it really does have some benefits […]

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