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Archive for August, 2004

Friendster shoots itself in the foot

31 Aug

It seems Friendster just shot itself in the foot.

This morning I read on Joyce Park’s blog, that she had been fired for blogging about Friendster switching to PHP from Java, an entry that stormed the net and led to wide discussion about PHP’s scalability compared to Java’s and also to many registering at Friendster to see what the fuzz was about.

Instead of thanking Joyce for getting Friendster some attention, they fired her for posting that entry on her blog.
The result of this has so far been enormous rage in the blogging community, many [1], [2] have decided to cancel their activities with friendster.

Friendster is getting what’s coming to them, how stupid can you be – seriously. The blogging community is the last part of the net you want pissed at you.

 
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When lightning strikes

25 Aug

5 seconds after I wrote the previous entry the lights went out and a HUGE thunder rolled over the house. Naturally my server and desktop crashed and my dog almost crapped his pants, so to speak – all parties recovered nicely :). However, while making my way out to the switchbox I walked in to a door and got a nasty cut in my eyebrow. It’s bleeding!!

 
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Sender Policy Framework

24 Aug

After reading on dnsreport.com that one was suppose to add Sender Policy Framework to ones DNS zone before October 1st, I decided to add it to my two domains tsn.dk and dreamcoder.dk. I registered both in The SPF Registry.

I have to admit it’s a bit scary to add something which could potentially kill mails you send to someone. I followed the guide, however I am still in doubt as to my setup being correct, I don’t think the guide explains it very well what the policy means in different circumstances, or maybe it’s just me.

My SPF looks like so: v=spf1 a mx ptr ~all, I added the ~all because that will cause mails to soft bounce, I am such a chicken :)

In any case you can bet your ass SPF won’t become mainstream before Postfix supports it natively (as far as I know, it doesn’t atm.). Right now it’s just a stupid perl plugin and I am under no circumstances going to put that into my Postfix installations.

 
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APD for PHP5 is out!

20 Aug

Sweet, APD for PHP5 is out, now lets get this show on the road!

I suspect George put some time into releasing a snapshot of CVS HEAD, much appreciated to whomever did so :)

 
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My, what a pretty mail you got

19 Aug

I couldn’t help smiling when I saw this mail in the phpdoc mailing list. How the hell can you expect people to take you seriously when you post a mail like that… Wez is going to have a field day.

 
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Search engine query highlighter for Serendipity

17 Aug

I created a search engine query highlighter for Serendipity today.

If you go to Google and search for “apd tricks PHP5″ and click the first result (being this blog), you’ll see the searchwords being highlighted in entries, comments and sidebars. Neat :)

It currently supports Google, Yahoo and Lycos. I can’t think of any other major search engines – if anyone know some more popular engines, let me know and I’ll add them.

I wonder if I should commit this?

Update: And now MSN Search
Update: Added Altavista

 
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APD is playing tricks on me

14 Aug

After I installed PHP5 I wanted to try out APD, since it’s mentioned in George’s book. However it has proven harder than I thought to install the PECL extension. Doing a “pecl install apd” gives me this.

I have no idea what’s wrong and therefore no idea how to fix it – any help is appreciated.

 
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Just upgraded to PHP 5.0.1

13 Aug

I decided to give PHP 5.0.1 a try, so now my home server (this server) is running PHP 5.0.1.
You might notice Serendipity has ZERO problems with PHP5 :) So far I have not, to my supprise, encountered any problems with PHP5 at all. The trick is now to code stuff so it’s still compatable with PHP4, which might be harder than you imagine.

On a somewhat related note, I am now mentioned in the PHP credits / phpcredits() … “User Note Maintainers Mehdi Achour, Friedhelm Betz, Vincent Gevers, Aidan Lister, Nuno Lopes, Tom Sommer“, and also in the documentation :)

 
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Help redesign Serendipity

11 Aug

Hello all,

Serendipity is currently searching for a new design. In accordance with that, we are in need of having some icons redesigned. Very simple :)

This is a list of icons which needs replacement:

- Delete
- Rename
- Scale
- Zoom
- Plus [expand]
- Minus [contract]
- XML

They basically have to be either jpg or gif (since IE doesn’t like png), and work on all kind of backgrounds. Gif is preferred, since it can handle transparency. The icons (except plus and minus) should be smaller than the ones above , since they are a little too big (duhh)

- Most importantly, we are looking for something like this http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/4165150/, filetype symbolizers.

Basically it would be an icon to symbolize a “default filetype”, like windows shows the windows icon next to a file, if it has no idea what kind of filetype is. This icon will be placed on a white background, so no need to worry about transparency.

- Also, if anyone has a cool set of PNG/GIF transparent smilies we could use, that would be awesome.

- Last but not least, if anyone could think of (and create in Vector) a Mascot or a new cool Logo, then that would also be greatly appreciated.

Of course, if you also want to create a new design, then who am I to stop you ;)

Since our project is open-source and that the theme will be bundled with
our released package, you will be granting access for everyone to use
your work, including companies.

Any suggestions or contributions can be sent to ts [at] dreamcoder.dk

Thanks so much :)

 
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Serendipity CVS Statistics

06 Aug

Check out this link for some CVS statistics for Serendipity.

Damn you Garvin :)

 
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