Here are my crazy predications regarding the future of computing, at least as far as operating systems go. At the moment, there exists three dominant operating systems out there: Windows, Mac OSX, and Linux. You could argue that OSX is a BSD, and say that Linux is just the kernel. You’d have a point, but [...]
More and more often, I’m finding ‘white noise’ sites online. The idea is simple. Each site provides you with background noise, or white noise, that will play in the background. For many people, white noise is comforting background music for both better sleep or concentration during the workday. Because I love this type of service, [...]
I’d like to posit a theory: that social news sites benefit more than the sources they link to. Submit a quality article to Reddit, or HN, or Digg, and these sites, not yours, will most likely gain the most benefit of your content. Your site will see an increase in visitors, but it will not [...]
Credit card forms are pretty simple to make when you first think about it. For many online stores, you plug yourself into PayPal and your done. For other people, you plug your shopping cart into your processor, and you accept the defaults. Maybe someone comes along and adds a custom design, rearranging things a bit, [...]
If your not a regular internet user, you might not be aware that Google’s Buzz has sparked a lot of criticism regarding it’s privacy policies. Basically, the problems weren’t as bad as everyone made it seem, and privacy settings were in place to prevent everything that came up. In many cases, the claims were simply [...]
The mod_setenvif module allows you to set environment variables according to whether different aspects of the request match regular expressions you specify. via mod_setenvif – Apache HTTP Server. I’ve never claimed to be a server guru, and I’ve never had much interest in delving into Apache configuration files, but web programming almost request that I [...]
One problem I have with the two big TDD sets out there for PHP (SimpleTest and PHPUnit) was the incompatibility of working in the setup I am working in. SimpleTest apparently wanted to take over error control, something my environment was already handling, and PHPUnit didn’t have a web interface by default. Finally, both wanted [...]
I’ve tried multiple times to restart blogging. I’ve blogged before. The site was newbienetwork.net, and then became phpcomplete.com. Both were fun, new, exciting, and interesting. I was learning to program, learning PHP, and teaching others along the way. Of course now I’m old and jaded. I’ve been programming for 10 years now, and I’ve been [...]