Sunday, March 30, 2003

Movable Type Tips and Tricks. With so many of us using MovableType, I thought the following compilation of links from WOIFM :: An Institute of Higher Learning might be useful. I've added a few of my own -- feel free to add more in... [Heal Your Church Web Site]

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Use a firewall, go to jail .... Here is a disturbing little story I just read in The Register entitled "Use a firewall, go to jail, and send Bill Gates too." The (DMCA) Digital Millennium Copyright Act clearly isn't enough for some people. Massachusetts and Texas are... [Heal Your Church Web Site]

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Michigan First With A Law That Could Outlaw VPN. Holy Bandwidth Batman, have our state legislators lost their mind? Virtual Private Networks are a wonderful technology that allow you to securely telecommute -- that is connect to your network at the office, from home. However, similar my last post... [Heal Your Church Web Site]

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Outrage over war crimes? War crimes. A great post by Steven Den Beste on the double standards everyone has regarding war crimes. ...even with this kind of care, it seems like everyone out there who can possibly find a reason to do so is tossing around accusations of war crime. But they're only flinging those accusations at us. In response to absolutely clear and blatant war crimes by Iraq, there has been a notable silence. In some of the fighting in the last couple of days, members of the Fedayeen have been herding civilians in front of them as they move towards our troops, to use them as "human shields". That's a blatant violation of the Geneva Convention, but I sure as hell haven't heard any massive international outrage about it, or denunciations and condemnations of Iraq. So where is all the outrage? Update: Here's a follow up by Steven. [Keith's Weblog]

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Keith says Syndirella is slowing down? I want a better aggregator!. Not to be disparaging, but it seems like Dmitry has slowed development on Syndirella. As I add more feeds, it's getting harder and harder to find things... I could really use some categories [Keith's Weblog]

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Keith's writing a PHP CMS? WebWork tutorial. Via Raible Designs, check out this WebWork Tutorial. It does make it look easy. After reading this I think I'm just about conceptually ready to write the "Actions" parts of my CMS that do form processing, validation, etc. Then I'll finally be able to write the backend for my CMS. Some of the things in that tutorial make me jealous of some of the features PHP doesn't have. Like clean iterators. Instead of being able to say #foreach($error in $errors) I have to say stuff like: while($error = $errors->next()){ but PHP5 will allow you to make standard iterators. Other stuff that PHP 5 will have that I want are interfaces/abstract classes and access protection (PPP). In my CMS I've been wanting to have similar classes derive from a base class (all Modules are derived from Module, all Iterators are derived from Iterator), etc. Regarding the Actions in this article, I'd like to have all actions inherit from a base Action class so that all Action subclasses are forced to implement methods like "validate", etc. But there's so much less incentive when there's nothing to force a derived class to implement methods in an abstract base class or interface. So yeah, I'm looking forward to PHP 5. [Keith's Weblog]

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The Crisis of the Family. The death and subsequent obits for the late Senator Moynihan have dominated my thought recently. Most interesting about the man... [Joshua Claybourn's Domain]

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By Allah, Kill Jews. I'm very intrigued by the dialog taking place in the comment section over the Congressional passage of a bill urging... [Joshua Claybourn's Domain]

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