Comments | mundens: I Talk In Pictures, Not In Words

mundens

I Talk In Pictures, Not In Words

May 05, 2008 10:44

Woo, this weather and time kills desire to achieve. Regardless, I actually got my car in the garage yesterday evening. And it's looking good for ferrouswheel to be able to do a similar thing soon. Lots of crap to move still and we may have to a do a run to the dump, to the dump, to the dump, dump, dump ( Read more... )

movies, life, programming

Comments 9

danjite May 4 2008, 22:50:33 UTC

List the tiles on Wellington Freecycle- find them as a Yahoo group.

meesto May 4 2008, 23:24:56 UTC

Buzz!

meesto May 4 2008, 23:24:42 UTC

Try listing your tiles on the Wellington Freecycle email group:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Wellingtonfreecycle/

You'd be surprised at what gets offered and taken.

eloieli May 4 2008, 23:51:36 UTC

I really like Drupal and lots of work goes in to ensure it is developed well and to good standards.

Drupal 6 looks really nice. My old Xenodochion Website was Drupal 5.

I have some books on PHP, but they are more from a beginners point of view and I expect you'll want something more advances. Still, you're welcome to borrow them if you want.

adrexia May 5 2008, 00:33:28 UTC

PHP isn't that ugly. There is some pretty ugly code out there, but that's what happens when a language is used by a large number of amateurs. *shrugs*

I have some php books you could borrow too if you wanted to. Specifically these ones:

The PHP Anthology, 101 Tips, Tricks, and Hacks
PHP and MySQL for Web development
Advanced PHP for Web professionals (isn't really all that advanced)

ferrouswheel May 5 2008, 02:20:52 UTC

Well it's certainly better than Perl (generally) or Brainf*ck ;)

elfs May 5 2008, 05:53:46 UTC

PHP is Perl, implemented poorly and with one objective: to make HTML look code-y. I've used PHP mostly for hacking Wordpress, and while I can read the code, I don't like to; it's non-obvious what's going on inside a PHP transaction, where session data is stored, how the request and response are handled. There's no concept at all of an application dispatch layer.

That's not to say I can't use it. I have and I will. But I have other languages I'd rather write in.

ferrouswheel May 5 2008, 05:59:13 UTC

Well, colour me embarrased for not knowing that.

Beyond hacking around with wordpress I haven't done much in PHP. Perl on the other hand I wrote many data extraction tools in, and my scripts were nigh impossible to read a year later... luckily I've taught myself to write much clearer code since then!

cha0sslave May 5 2008, 07:31:45 UTC

Wasn't Crank an utterly shit movie, Stratham is really scraping the bottom of the barrel lately, and they're doing a sequel, plus a Transporter 3.

As for the tiles ring around a few building recyclers and tell them they're free if they take them away. I'm sure there will be at least one of them interested in free stock, but keep a few for repairs and replacements.