Posts from ‘April, 2003’

RSS Feeds are great and all, but there has to be a better way.
Using RSS as the method of encapsulating information is fine. However, polling them every hour, half hour, or thirty seconds is a bit ridiculous. There's got to be a way to let a particular server know that you're interested in being notified [...]

My initial thoughts for InkLog could be summarized in a few simple statements. Everything is a node. All nodes are displayed through templates.
The underlying theory is also simple. What makes a "blog" a "blog" isn't really anything other than a date sorted collection of data. So, the theory behind InkLog was to make everything within [...]

Brad and Tydel reminded
me of Brad in
the Hood, a parody I wrote what seems like ages ago.
I miss those days.

Allow me a few minutes of your time to express to you just how
wonderful my wife is.
Regardless of how grumpy, irrational, stubborn, or
just plain mean I am being, she supports me publically. And then, with
compassion and sincerity, she counsels me and comforts me in
private.
And that's the way it should be.
I love you, Jess.

I've done a lot of work on Inklog ever since I decided to rewrite
it so that it doesn't use the filesystem as the database. These plans aren't completely
laid out yet, but they're stable enough to begin development. As
development proceeds, I'm certain portions of the structure and design
will change.

In case you didn't know it, PHP converts periods (".") to underscores ("_") in all variable names. This includes GET, POST and COOKIE variables. A period is not a valid character in a PHP variable name. If you consider the syntax you would have to use in order to access it, you can see why:
$foo.bar [...]

Dean Allen, author of TextPattern, announces his blog
hosting service, TextBox.

Everyone else is saying it, so I'm sure you've heard already. Six Apart, creators of Movable Type, have announced a new service called TypePad that will be released later this year.
The best way to describe the product they intend to offer is this: it will harness the power of Movable Type into a system as [...]

While writing Inklog, I've been debating with myself regarding my use of the filesystem as a datastore. While the filesystem certainly makes creating, updating, visualizing, backing up, and restoring data much easier than it would be in a database, it adds many hardships. First of all, the convenience of SQL is thrown out the window. [...]

Wow. I didn't know this until now, but Xaraya uses my feedParser code to handle
its RSS functionality. Very cool.