Through Aaron I found out about Yahoo! opening up their user authentication to third parties. The ease of having just a single log in for various sites worldwide is very userfriendly. I applaud the idea. However, not the implementation. As Aaron also notes, it can be confusing for users to be able to sign in…
Standardization. This is one of the things where PHP still falls behind, big time. In a recent thread on the Zend Framework general mailinglist, this topic was touched in an informal proposal to get a module in the framework for Portlets. In this thread, a reference was made to a Java specification (JSR). This is…
I am still in the process of moving the sites from my old host to DreamHost. One of the sites is one I host for a fellow artist. After doing the regular MySQL dump, and loading this dump into the new database, all unicode characters were, to say it in proper english, fucked up. Luckily,…
One of the things where Java is way ahead of PHP at the moment is the deployment of projects. There are projects, such as Phing, that are already a good effort, and will make deploying your project easier. Yet, it’s no Maven for instance. In a recent weblog post, Sebastian Bergmann, author of PHPUnit, asks…
Drupal at DreamHost is something fun, or so I’ve experienced tonight. I had prepared a full site configuration including modules, tweaked configuration and even content. I did this all on my local machine. Usually, when I do these things, it’s a matter of copying over the files and the database, change the database credentials in…
Everybody knows Digg. And that is why I don’t really check the site out anymore. Even though Digg still seems to be able to keep some kind of quality to it’s content, a lot of useless junk is submitted. When the mass discovered Digg, it went downhill and wasn’t as much fun anymore. So I…
Through Vinu I found out about a great tool for javascript, HTML and CSS work. Aptana is an Eclipse-based editor for javascript, HTML and CSS making use of Eclipse’s great set of features, specifically tweaked for usage with earlier mentioned languages. Very nice also is the fact that they also have a download of an…
Nothing negative about my previous host, as they do a good job without a question, but my opinion on my new hosting provider definitely is better already. Instead of playing a closed card about any downtime, which is common among a lot of hosting providers (again, not my previous hosting provider), DreamHost decided to give…
The Ufdi Network has recently been expanding with various new members, a very good sign. Still, after the recent expansion, we were still having pure linux and mac in our ranks. Now, even though this is not a bad thing of course, it was time for some counterweight. Gideon Marken is, how he calls it,…
For a while already I’ve been following VT’s Tech Blog. Vinu Thomas writes in an excellent way about technology there, talking about all kinds of topics, ranging from PHP, security to setting up a linux wireless access point. Welcome Vinu to the network!