Voyager vs Smartphones
Perceptive and made me chuckle. Meanwhile my smartphone will be lucky to survive 34 months, and is only able to receive commands from Earth if I hold it out of an upstairs window… Source
2011
Drupal finally using OOP
Finally. This is a huge step forward for Drupal. After eschewing OOP practices for a long time, its finally winning over core developers, which will make working with Drupal as a Framework easier in many ways. I copied the announcement below, but you can see that patch and discussion here. This patch is about to be committed.
Wait, Gingrich is the humane one?
I scanned the results of the latest GOP debate and while it didn’t turn up anything earth shattering, it speaks volumes that in the current GOP, Newt Gingrich is the humane voice. I’m not sure if he was ever an anti-imigration partisan, or if he’s genuinely not a nice, likeable person. But when he led
Grokking Zend Framework 2
I’ve found these to be helpful in porting a ZF1 app to ZF2, which is in Beta1 status at the moment. Rob Allen’s tutorial -updated for the beta, worked for me out of the box using git submodule. The programmers reference manual for groking new concepts, although sometimes it takes a couple of reads. Finally, looking
Debunking the sugar hyperactivity myth
And yet, I’m sure countless parents will rather trust their own anecdotal experience. Let’s cut to the chase: sugar doesn’t make kids hyper. There have been at least twelvetrials of various diets investigating different levels of sugar in children’s diets. That’s more studies than are often done on drugs. None of them detected any differences in behavior between
Virginia Tech professor cuts PC energy usage
I came across this link about a Virginia Tech professor that wrote a program to reduce energy wasted by computers. On the face of it, it sounds a bit smarter than the usual power management techniques that shut off parts or all of a computer when its not being used. It claims up to 30%
Fixing Realtek ethernet driver on Linux
When my 3 year old son pressed the sleep button on my keyboard, we discovered that it actually sends my Archlinux desktop to sleep. Who would have thunk it? What was more annoying is that when the machine woke up, the network connection did not come back. Poking around in the log files, I saw
Improved importing to bitbucket
Earlier, I wrote about a way to import an exisiting git project into bitbucket. I’ve since discovered a much easier way to do this using git’s own commands. Instead of having to use git’s daemon mode and have bitbucket import your repository, you should setup a new bitbucket repository and push to it. Assume you
Responsive Design
I’ve updated my theme here to make the layout more responsive depending on the device you view it in. For both smart phones and iPads/tables, the layout linearizes. That is a fancy way of saying the right sidebar should scoot below the main content area, and everything will become 100% wide to fill the screen.
Web Design is Evolving
I may be a bit late to the party with this observation, but web design is finally evolving. Mobile phones and tablets have freed us from having to use a laptop or desktop to use the web. Using HTML and CSS, designers can now use media queries to control how a site appears on different