The more things change the more they stay the same: Rivalry renewed: D.C. tops Red Bulls.  The usual cautions about not taking the pre season as a real indicator of future performance apply here. Still, any time we beat the Metros it's a good thing. Joe, queue up the "Same old Metros" chants!

Jaime Moreno slotted the game's only goal past Tony Meola in the 56th minute.

The ejections of Youri Djorkaeff and Taylor Graham, both late in the second half, made a comeback all but impossible. Both were sent off for earning a second yellow cards tackling, in the Canadian referee's opinion, too aggressively.

Jeremy Zawodny steps up to the plate in defense of Web Developers, once again. Writing a good application no matter waht is going to be demanding, it's just easier to roll something/anything out using php+javascript than with a "real" programming language. In effect, what I see is that php / javascript programming has a much lower bar, so inexperienced programmers can put out very funcitonal prototypes quickly. In a way, the languages make it possible to ignore some demands like documentation, clean design of the API, separation of business logic from the display code, maintainability, and designing for future flexibility/improvements.

Subversion is a great replacement for CVS and a very productive tool for managing code. I began using it last year to track my changes and apply them across my sites. The New Yorg PHP group has a really informative and extensive presentation on using SVN, from setting it up to practical tips for using it. I found the comparision between the two repository storage options, Berkeley DB and FSFS, very informative as I wasn't really aware of the differences. Another good SVN resource is Simon Tatham's experiences with Subversion. Notes on how to convert from BDB to FSFS are here.