So, if you’re a leet php coder, you must have installed Smarty since it gives you a three-tier web application and separates your display logic from your business logic. Right? Maybe not. Just using a template system doesn’t guarantee any of this, so don’t let yourself be deceived in this way. Before I go further, […]
Jason says that the most interesting announcement from Apple today was the inclusion of a calendar server based on iCal. As Sandy points out in Jason’s comments, Apple will also make the code available under the Open Source Apache 2.0 license. While there have been other attempts to make group calendaring for those of us
Here comes another set of panoramic pictures. These two are from Dave Kuhl’s bachelor retreat in Alaska. On the first day we hiked up Falt Top mountain, not all the way up but a fairly good ways up. Not being quite the outdoorsman that you might expect, it was a challenging ascent at times. Not
Sometimes, the things I post about have a strange way of intersecting. This past weekend, Bolivian president suffered a broken nose during a football match. Take note that while the BBC describes the game as "an indoor footbal match", based on the picture, it looks more like Futsal. Futsal is a small-sided (5 a side
I’m very happy to announce that I’ve been invited to contribute to The DCenters, one of the best DC United and American soccer focused blogs out there. I know for some of you, my wife included, the only interesting posts have been my soccer related posts. I invite you to add The DCenters to your
If like me or because of me, you’ve installed Thunderbird as your email client, you may have ignored some of the useful extensions that other users have written for the program. Below, are six extensions I recommend you install to make your email client of choice a little bit better and a lot more useful.
Two fixes of note over the last few weeks. I’ve fixed a bug in how I was parsing atom feeds, I was expecting an ‘issued’ date in the feed, but will now fall back on ‘published’ if its not there. Thanks to Jason from zigazoga for wondering why his feed didn’t appear. He’s also displaying
Host: On to our first question. Is Europe the answer? Oscar: I’m not convinced it is. I think when people pull out the Europe card, what they’re really saying is we need to get more of our players into more competitive leagues and matches. Alejandro: For now going abroad gives a player the chance to
Tuesday, June 20th and our fourth day in Frankfurt. We slept in more so than usual, the previous day on the Mainz river had worn us out. We decided to take it a little easier, and spent the afternoon walking around the Romer looking through all the touristy shops for souvenirs to bring home. For
Finally got frustrated that despite the obvious settings, Thunderbird was not using Firefox when I click on a link in an email on my Debian desktop. Instead it chose to launch Epiphany, despite the fact that I’d set Firefox as my browser under Gnome -> Preferences -> Preferred Applications. If you’re running into the same
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