Archive for February, 2008
Lenovo Expanding ThinkPad Linux Offerings
Matt Kohut posted on the Lenovo corporate blogs a very good sign of industry Linux support. According to Kohut, Lenovo will be expanding its Linux offerings not just by expanding their preloaded selection, but by porting the ThinkVantage software (their “Craplet but Not Craplet” driver/application suite) to Linux. Normally all I see as far as [...]
PHP Feeds, or, Get Your Read On!
I’ve started to amass a large amount of feeds in my reader and I thought I’d share a few with you: PHPDeveloper.org (feed) Great aggregation of blog posts and updates in the PHP world. Zend Developer Zone (feed) Zend’s place for all things PHP related SitePoint.com (blogs) (articles) The infamous SitePoint. Not entirely PHP, but [...]
It’s HERE!
Holy crap my ThinkPad T61 got here FAST! Lenovo informed me on Wednesday that my laptop was shipped, cool right? Shipped from Hong Kong. I had 2 day shipping so sweet, I get my laptop on Friday. Nope, Thursday morning. At 10. A.M. First thing I did of course was completely obliterate vista (I downgraded [...]
Impatient (and other things)
I don’t really have a particularly programming themed idea for a post today, however I’ll have one up very soon (this weekend), discussing tackling web payments and using OOP to simplify. I have some code I’ve been meaning to post, though I think my PayPal object may not see the light of day (with about [...]
Why I’m Buying a ThinkPad…
Playing Catchup On Quotes
I’m a sucker for good quotes, so without further ado, my favorite quotes to catch this blog up. In the future I’ll post quotes that I find particularly good or inspirational. They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin I have never let [...]
QBVII
So I’ve been on a pseudo Leon Uris binge lately (pseudo in that this is my third Uris since Christmas, depressing considdering I used to knock out 2 novels a week). I absolutely adore his writing. It’s historical fiction, always somehow rotating around the Jews and/or Israel (in the 40′s). He likes to present two [...]
Our Slides Featured on SlideShare!
My (Our, Chris included) slides have been featured on the front page of SlideShare’s website! Small time success yes, but success none the less. Take that Ed Schipul, my slides are right next to yours! (Btw Ed, I still think your presentation you gave to refreshBCS was good, but I still disagree with your thoughts [...]
Plesk open_basedir Workaround
Unfortunately, Plesk does (and according to atomicturtle will continue to) hate on developers by enabling open_basedir by default and not give any way to change such behavior. A work around is possible, overriding the setting in a vhost.conf file (httpd.include files are not so good because Plesk rewrites them every time a change is made [...]