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 …
Posted on Wed 09 November 2005 in Databases • Tagged with DB2
Good news for all you DB2 for Linux people who love Ubuntu -- IBM just validated Ubuntu as a Linux distribution on which IBM is willing to offer its enterprise level support. You can see that Ubuntu was excited in their press release about the accomplishment. And rightully so: no other …
Posted on Tue 01 November 2005 in Databases • Tagged with Apache Derby
Just got back from a gruelling Paris - Amsterdam - Berlin - Paris - Toronto series of flights (don't ask) to wrap up my European October getaway and found this sitting on my doorstep.
Yes, sirs and madams, it is the official hard-bound 500+ page book known as Apache Derby: Off to the Races …