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Seven great PHP Development Environments Compared

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 15:34:56 -0800

IBM DeveloperWorks has a great write-up of IDE's for PHP development. I think it's high time I gradudated from JEdit (still my all-time fave text editor), bit the proverbial bullet and installed Eclipse. Let's see if it can do for my PHP productivity what it once did for my Java.

sIFR Tips, Tricks 'n' Traps

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 15:13:08 -0800

I've been working on converting an all-Flash Web site to HTML, so its content could be properly spidered by Google, Overture etc.

My mandate was to preserve the design of the original Flash site in every possible respect, short of getting ridiculous with JavaScript- and DOM-based animation. The original site creators are big-time Flash addicts, and primarily visual. So the issue of typeface embedding came up rather quickly.

Handy logrotate.d verification script (in Perl)

Tue, 23 Aug 2005 18:32:59 -0700

This is a Perl script I wrote a while back as a housekeeping tool for Linux systems. It looks in /var/log and in /etc/logrotate.d, comparing the existing log files to the ones mentioned in your logrotate configuration files, producing a helpful list of which files are not being rotated.

Leah Siegel

Tue, 22 Mar 2005 09:11:53 -0800

I heard her play last night at Orchid Lounge, and I was... I don't know the word in English. In French I could say, j'étais sidéré.

sub stairs

Fri, 17 Dec 2004 18:54:54 -0800

Subway symmetries stir my soul.