Tue, 22 Jun 2004 14:04 UTC
I have joined the likes of Aaron Wormus and Tobias Schlitt in attaining a much desired status level. Yes, I am now one of the few, the proud; and I’m gloating, as well.
Courtesy of Patrick Reilly, I now have a Gmail account. The accounts, during this beta stage, are by invitation only, similar to Orkut. I’m not sure when I’ll get any invites, but if you suck up to me enough, I may just invite you.
Contact me at my Gmail address at benramsey at gmail.com
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Fri, 18 Jun 2004 9:37 UTC
So, I’m not the only one who’s noticed an increase in interest here. Harry Fuecks mentioned in his weblog yesterday that many ASP 3.0 developers are moving to PHP because of ASP.NET. I’m one of them, though I made the complete switch over a year ago.
I had been using PHP somewhat side-by-side with ASP; it just depended on where the application was being hosted. However, as I saw ASP.NET and all the other .NET technologies become more and more the primary focus of Microsoft, I decided to check it out by installing an “educational” copy of Visual Sudio.NET. I was flabbergasted. The program was so bloated and everything so foreign and different from the ASP I knew (VB Script), that I couldn’t deal with it. I had to learn something entirely new to keep up with the pace of development. It wasn’t worth it.
On the other hand, I had to learn something new when I switched to PHP, but it seemed familiar, somewhat inviting. The structure was similar to JavaScript, something with which I was very familiar, and the language had a great community base and excellent on-line documentation. I was warmly welcomed in rather than shut out in the cold.
I invite other ASP 3.0 developers who have been orphaned by Microsoft in the wake of ASP.NET to do the same. Make the switch to PHP; you’ll be glad you did.
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Thu, 10 Jun 2004 11:17 UTC
One of the biggest discussions on the pear-dev mailing list right now is that of the HTML::Template_Savant proposal. Lots of people like it, others still want to do away with template engines in PEAR altogether. I won’t go into all the details about what Savant is (you can figure that out for yourself), but I will say that this discussion is reshaping the way we think of HTML templating engines in PEAR—for the better, IMO.
For example, in the Play nice! thread on the pear-dev mailing list, the idea was suggested (by Greg Beaver) that PEAR use this opportunity of discussion and voting to create a “common template interface to some existing template engines.” What a great idea! Later on in the thread, Greg goes on to describe how the Template classes could be split up to allow for multiple types of engines under one unifying structure.
I think that PEAR is moving in the right direction with this discussion, and I’m looking forward to seeing the changes ahead.
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Thu, 3 Jun 2004 10:21 UTC
There is an interesting article by Andy Tanenbaum defending Linux and the history of Unix. Apparently, there are some out there who would like to claim that Linus Torvalds was not the sole developer of Linux and that he plagiarized code from Unix, MINIX, and elsewhere.
While this may be just another part of the SCO debate over Linux, Tanenbaum’s article is, nonetheless, an interesting read.
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