Archive: May 14, 2002
My prorege.net forum is up, thanks to phpBB. Everyone check it out, post something, let's get some discussion going.
Best thing about a forum is that it archives everything, so if there are common questions, objections, whatever, we can recognize them, look back on them, and learn from them.
phpBB is amazing. Installed without a hitch, very professional, good looking, fast etc. etc. Definitely recommended.
Via MetaFilter, The Death of Evangelism. Neat read. Nothing much to say about it in particular. It's just often cool to read about someone's life.
After that happened, my wife came home from running an errand. She poked her head in the bathroom door and said, "What's up?"
I said, "I believe in God now."
"Cool," she said. "Do you want to go to church?"
I have to correct him on a few things. First, his comment about homosexuals at the end... why does everyone divorce their head from what the Bible actually says? The Bible views homosexuality as a crime as much as it does murder and rape. He wouldn't say we should be tolerant and non-judgementental towards murderers and rapists, so why homosexuals?
Second, he says: "At the same time, I believe in people's God-given right to believe whatever the hell they choose to believe." If the Christian God does actually exist, then certainly people don't have a right to believe whatever they feel like.
Finally, we're not simply to "act real good" so other people can see our example and make the connection that "Oh, I should believe in God then". On the contrary, Paul says that "For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ." We're to wage an intellectual war against unbelief. There's a lot involved in that I'm not going to go into here 
And Mere Christianity is a great book, he's right about that.
What the War Taught Me: There are two kinds of people in the world--those who think there are two kinds of people, and those who believe that there is one kind of person in different kinds of circumstances.
I hate it when this happens. I had meant to blog this when I first came across it, but didn't. I just went looking for it in my archives and couldn't find it. I went looking on Google and couldn't find it there, but luckily I remembered where I had first seen it.
Via OSNews: Alternatives to the Registry.
Microsoft Corp. now stores system configuration information in binary format in its Windows registry, but other vendors take different approaches to achieve the same goal.
Discusses GConf, MacOSX's scheme, Sun's scheme, etc. Good read:
Apple Computer Inc.'s Mac OS X already stores user settings in standard flat files using the XML format, company spokesman Bill Evans says. The operating system has an application called System Preferences that contains the controls users need to customize system settings.
Each user on a computer has a home directory for storing preferences, files and personal documents. "One of the advantages of this storage method is easy migration," Evans says. "Since there are no cryptic data stores to move -- only standard XML files -- a user can quickly migrate to a new Macintosh by simply copying the contents of their home directory to the new computer."
Makes sense, right? You don't have to worry about your registry getting corrupted, you can edit your files in a text editor, and you get automatic multi-user and multi-version support without doing anything.
I bet the new Hewlett Compaqard is going to suck more than either of the companies did individually.
PHPEverywhere: ADOdb 2.0 Released.
ADOdb is a database abstraction library for PHP. It supports many databases, including Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Informix, Sybase, Microsoft SQL Server, VFP, Access, Frontbase, Interbase, Firebird, DB2 and ODBC. The API is modelled on Microsoft's ADO, making it easy for ASP developers to learn.
If I was ever going to write an app in PHP that I knew needed to be portable across databases, this is almost definitely what I'd use.
I just updated my StructuredText parser - now at version .97. I added some new features, including lists which don't have bullets in front:
- This is a list item
- Which doesn't have a
- Next I have to
- Add definition lists
I also added autonumbered headings like MoinMoin has.
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