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It has been a long time since I got downright giddy about something developer-oriented. Lots of new APIs are coming out all the time and I usually take a once over look at them to determine if there is something cool there. A lot of time there are cool things and I promise myself to come back and explore the possibilities later. I rarely do.
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At the end of this post, this site is going into a twitter free period of two weeks. I’m sensitive to the fact that we talk about Twitter quite a lot and not always doing a good job of reaching into all of real life like we’d like. So after this post, Twitter will not be mentioned here until June 12. :-)
However, I wanted to get this out the door for devs to knock on and bang out. Awhile ago, I created the dctwits Twitter group and released the generic code. It included a Twitter class created by David Billingham and slightly modified for our use.
The other day, I was talking to the CTO of a company that is working to build a web technology solution for a problem that exists due to the arcane infrastructure and systems already in place in the niche target industry. He was mourning the fact that, after spending gobs of time wireframing and re-wireframing a solution, the parties who initially expressed interest in licensing the technology, had decided to walk away from the table for a variety of reasons.
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It probably interests no one but me, but I’m becoming more of an SVN ninja. It took me days to figure out how to setup a web accessible SVN server with appropriate web, svn and filesystem permissions (i.e. this repository is world readable, but can only be written to by me). I’ve been using SVN [...]
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The Wordpress devs provide a bug tracking utility to allow users, particular of nightly build and beta software to report issues that may arise from the use of these pre-gold versions.
I have been using nightly builds for quite some time but usually don’t report issues. Frankly, I don’t normally encounter, and that, I feel, speaks [...]
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In a long awaited press release, MySQL has finally released MySQL 4.1 as it’s recommended version. Finally, there are enterprise-level features available in the popular database platform:
Subqueries and Derived Tables
GUI and Configuration Wizards for Windows and Linux providing an easier mechanism for optimization.
OpenSSL encrypted transport protocols.
Smaller memory footprint.
New GIS spatial field type for geographic [...]
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Today, I’m attempting to learn image manipulation with PHP using the GD library. Perhaps someone has some pointers here. This function is designed to create thumbnail images of photos. It takes 1-3 arguments. The first is the path to the image. The second and third are optional and are the desired new height and the [...]
