Posted on Sun 12 February 2006 in Gaming • Tagged with Poker
I sent the following email to my beloved cousin Jason, and thought that it might be interesting fare for anyone checking out my poker action. By way of explanation, I've cashed out from Pokerstars a couple of times now; once after I cleared my last deposit bonus, and once recently …
Posted on Fri 10 February 2006 in Databases • Tagged with DB2, PHP
The stable release of the ibm_db2 PECL extension for IBM DB2, Cloudscape, and Apache Derby brought a high performing, highly functional database connectivity alternative to Unified ODBC for PHP 4 and 5 users. However, in and of itself a database extension does not enable you to use the many …
Posted on Tue 07 February 2006 in Gaming • Tagged with Poker
Wil's hosting his usual Tuesday night game tonight at 8:30 PM EST: I got knocked out 53rd out of 118 players last week... this time around I'm hoping to get closer to the bubble. But how the hell am I going to concentrate on my game if I'm live …
Poor Steph -- the author of the Zend Weekly Summaries of the action on the php-internals mailing lists hardly ever hears praise for her efforts, but suffers a barrage of weeklies! cries on IRC if she happens to be a few weeks behind. Suffice to say that her weeklies don' t …
Posted on Wed 18 January 2006 in Databases • Tagged with DB2
It is perhaps a sad reflection on my life that I'm using a personal blog to offer technical information about a product that I work on, rather than telling you about what I ate last night (spinach and goat cheese salad with a raspberry vinaigrette dressing, quinoa, and a rather …
At the end of November, I received a copy of `No Nonsense XML Web Development With PHP <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/097524020X/coffeecode-20?creative=327641&camp=14573&link_code=as1>`__, written by Thomas Myer, from Sitepoint Press. With our move to the Great White North in December …
Posted on Wed 04 January 2006 in misc • Tagged with Personal
I use Serendipity for my blog software. Other Serendipity users will note that I'm pretty much using the default template for the site. Boring! For the most part, that's because I'm more focused on generating content (slim pickings though they may be) versus putting time into design. Substance versus style …
Posted on Thu 22 December 2005 in misc • Tagged with Personal
As a means of conveying information, podcasts suck.
Harry Fuecks made some interesting observations on the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern of application development as it applies to Web applications in a very long post called MVC and web apps: oil and water:
What I'm really trying to say here is I think the desire for MVC on the server …
Wez beat me to it: I noticed this weekend that Oracle had named him as the PHP Developer of the Year. Part of this is undoubtedly due to the work Wez put into improving the OCI driver and creating the PDO_OCI driver for Oracle -- and that's good for Oracle …