Category Archives: Review

New Toy

Well, I did what I didn’t think I would do, at least not as soon as I did. I bought an iPad. Joy and I just went on vaca­tion (obvi­ous from the pic­tures in pre­vi­ous post eh?) and we thought that it would be some­thing good to have on the trip. Both Joy and i …

August 22, 2010 – 8:57 pm | By bill | Posted in Review, Technology | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)

Yes, Open Source Is Important

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 …

February 13, 2009 – 5:07 pm | By bill | Posted in PHP, Review, Technology, Web Development | Tagged , , , , | Comments (0)

Laconica — OpenSource microBlogging

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.

August 27, 2008 – 5:49 pm | By bill | Posted in Review, Technology | Tagged , , , , | Comments (1)

Review: WordPress for iPhone

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 patio …

July 23, 2008 – 10:46 am | By bill | Posted in Review | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Book Review: Learning PHP Data Objects

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 a …

July 18, 2008 – 10:56 am | By bill | Posted in PHP, Review | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)