I’ve changed the look of the site (again). I got tired of the dark/grey look and wanted something brighter. Thanks to Count Zero for making the wonderful Binary Blue theme.
Now to the untrained eye this theme is just a theme. If one looks closely this theme is not just a theme but is a theme […]

I’ve been meaning to blog this stuff for a long time so here goes…

Club Moz had it’s first Super Fun Hack Day. Super Fun Hack Day is a day (or part thereof) where people can get together to hack on Mozilla related projects (this means anything that even remotely is related to mozilla). The best […]

I’m really bad at blogging. I was hoping that I’ve gotten better, but I haven’t. Oh, well nothing for it but to try again and there’s even news:
Cesar and I have released the first of (at least) two patches adding support for Micrsoft’s C/C++ compiler (cl) to distcc. This first patch adds a framework for […]

… just not any time soon. I planned on just “cleaning up the code” and then posting it on sourceforge. HA! The code is in such a state that I might as well re write in PHP5 as port it and clean it up. The code was originally written using a pseudo iterative process - […]

Google notebook lets you save any content that you can download + highlight (e.g. it doesn’t save streaming video). Plus it lets you make your own notes. Then you can organize it using headings and use multiple notebooks. Then you can share it on-line. Then you can go into IE and have all your content […]

I really like PHP. I think it’s great. Unfortunatley, my relationship with PHP has recently been on the rocks.
First php4 dies on me at the very end of my big Systems project. I might discuss the details of that particular disaster some other time.
Now, php5 has its session save path unset. So I google and […]

The above is something that I realized only after a long time of experimenting with PostGreSQL. You see, when you want the default value of a column to be the next val of a sequence you need write:
nextval(’”seq_prodOrganizerPk”‘)
The single quotes seem to mean that it’s an relation somewhere in the schema (not a column in […]

O’Reilly’s PHP Dev Center has an article on how to do MVC in PHP. I need to finish some other code right now, but I gotta take a look tonight.