http://bhiv.com Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:14:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Here is an interesting problem, over seven years ago PHP 4 was released. It was a vast improvement over 3 and the world adopted it quickly. When PHP 5 was released the move was much slower and is still the minority on web hosts. I have moved all of my personal ... http://bhiv.com/go-php5/ Lifehacker has a pretty good summary on how to write a Firefox extension. This is something I've wanted to explore since Firefox introduced SQLite in 2.0. I've been rolling my own online bookmarking for a while. A while ago I started off with Furl.net and didn't move to del.icio.us with all ... http://bhiv.com/writting-firefox-extensions/ Ever been reading a site and they show an email address as: "name AT example DOT com" to try and fool email address harvesters? Well I have 22 million reasons why this is a stupid method. Anyone want to buy an email list? http://bhiv.com/22-million-reasons-this-is-a-stupid-anti-spam-measure/ I was playing round the other night can came up with this SQL to solve a popular tongue twister: SELECT COUNT(woodpile.is_chucked) FROM woodpile, woodchuck WHERE woodchuck.can_chuck = 1 AND woodpile.is_chucked = 1 Here is another one: SELECT COUNT(pepper.picked) FROM pepper WHERE pepper.picked_by = 'Peter Piper' A couple more with the tongue twisters: Which wristwatches are Swiss wristwatches? SELECT watch.* FROM watch WHERE watch.make = ... http://bhiv.com/tongue-twisters-in-sql/ Problogger asks: What makes you unsubscribe from a blog’s RSS feed? There is some interesting insight in the comments. I have tried to compile a summary of the comments so far. (I've stared my peeves) 17 - Too many posts 12 - Topics not focused or changes topics too often 10 - Not enough ... http://bhiv.com/do-too-many-posts-overwhelm-readers/ I had been frustrated with the state of Edgy's php packages. I have been developing on 5.2.0 since attending the 2006 Zend Conference. I could have built everything myself, but I have been looking for an easy way to maintain the server. I can always move to a custom ... http://bhiv.com/ditch-ubuntus-php-packages/ Merlin from 43folders has started a podcast, Productive Talk with the evergreen topic of Procrastination. He has come out of gate strong, getting David Allen of "Getting Things Done" as his first guest. The audio is a little uneven at first but settles down. Overall, very good and I am ... http://bhiv.com/waste-13-minutes-learning-how-to-stop-procrastination/ After getting PDO sucessfully installed on Ubuntu, I discovered that it would segfault on otherwise normal queries. I also fount out that I am not alone. Stuart Herbert has documented the PDO segfaults. This was sort of disappointing, but at least it was assigned in PECL's bug tracking system. http://bhiv.com/pdo-segfaults/ I had recently purchased a small computer to act as my development server but I also wanted it to act as second desktop machines. I have plenty of experience using Debian as a server, but I decided to try the new distribution from Ubuntu. The install was pretty easy including getting ... http://bhiv.com/getting-pdo-to-work-with-ubuntus-606-lts-dapper-drake/ "Bill Westerman has joined the back-to-paper movement. Here are a couple of Bill's ingenous methods for managing his time and to-do lists in his notebook. Bill prefers the Miquelrius notebook (shown here). Roll over the photo to see how it works." (via Communication Nation) http://bhiv.com/time-management-software-offline-version/