Archive: March 23, 2003
Check out The Strong Bad e-mail files, via Adam. I don't know why this stuff is so funny, but it is.
It's funny how everyone who's actually lived in Iraq supports the war.
Via Simon, there's a slideshow of what's new in PHP 5. Unfortunately, the server is super slow right now (the slideshow one, not Simon's), so you may have trouble getting to the slideshow. Lots of interesting stuff.
Ok, LOTS of OO stuff.
Jeeeez. Russians have been suppyling Iraq with military technology, even during the war.
We don't seem to be prosecuting this war as well as we could be, for two main reasons:
- We're trying so hard to minimize civilian casualties (and doing a darn good job at it too), but at the expense of our military operations. Why have we left their TV intact so that it can continue to spew propaganda?
- We're too concerned about our image. This is the first war we've actually had reporters reporting live from battles. I watched our troops get held up for like 3 hours at "the battle of Um Qasr" by a small number of Iraqi soldiers. We didn't have to try very hard, but it still took a long time, most likely because we didn't want to use as much force as we otherwise would have only because there was a reporter filming the whole thing.
I'm really upset that the bastards have captured some of our soldiers. I heard gruesome descriptions of what they did to our POWs during Gulf War I. I just really hope Iraq is faking it with the American uniforms they're supposed to have.
Asshole reporter just overheard:
"Are you afraid that this is another Vietnam, or do you just suffer from over-confidence?"
Another Vietnam? Hello, we've been at war for like 4 days!
There's a chance that the Judy dynamic array algorithm will be included in Perl 6.
Tim Bunce pointed everyone at the Judy dynamic array code on Sourceforge and wondered if it would be useful for Parrot. (Judy is a high speed dynamic array implementation optimized for modern processor architectures apparently). Leo Tötsch thought it looked interesting and suggested that someone try wrapping Judy up in a PMC and running some performance tests. Elizabeth Mattijsen went and took a look and reported some issues with memory leakage and worried that the project looked 'silent'. Tim mailed her concerns to Judy's author who addressed them in his reply and admitted that he wasn't that good at keeping the website up to date. He said that Judy had been 'tested carefully not to have leakage' and wondered if it might have been an issue with the tool Liz used to do the testing.
I await further developments with interest. If Judy can be made to work, it looks jolly quick.
I learned about Judy from sweetcode a few weeks ago, and thought "Hmm... I wonder if the Perl 6 people are aware of this". Turns out they are  The project looked really interesting, so I'm really looking forward to seeing what conclusions the Parrot team comes to.
As soon as Smarty 2.5 is released, I want to check out its caching. At first, after reading that page, I was worried that I wouldn't be able to use its caching because it seemed that each cache is specific to the template file. The problem is that my CMS uses the same root template for all of my pages, so that's no good.
However, it turns out that you can use a cache_id to control caching.
It looks like I'll even be able to control the cache lifetime per URL, which is awesome. So I can set a value in my global configuration file to determine how long each URL is cached. I'll be able to specify it in as fine-grained a manner as I want. For instance, cache my yearly and monthly archives for a day, and maybe my weblog home page for only 10 minutes. Awesome.
If I really want to get anal, I could change the level of caching based on how old an entry is. So I could cache entries that are weeks old for a few days, but entries that are only a few hours old for only a few minutes since they might change.
My CMS rules
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