Implicit Evaluation with PHP Archives: March 2006
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17 March 2006
Initial Reactions to Installing XP on Intel Macs
I started playing. Making the Mac-enabled XP CD was very easy. Unfortuently, building a PC/Mac compatible disk was not.
Initially, I deviated from the very precise howto.txt Narf distributed. I did not wipe the drive. Instead, I plugged in a 250 GB ATA/133 drive on Firewire. I partioned that with a small Mac OS Extended (Journaled) […]
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16 March 2006
Georgia on my Mind
Like I posted earlir, the big news of the day is Windows XP on Mac.
The difficulty, however, is that I use my iMac. It has lots of data I’d prefer not to lose. It has lots of applications I’d prefer not to lose. As it happens, I have an external 250GB Firewire drive. My plan […]
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13 March 2006
A feature request
I do wish PHP had some kind of preprocessor, macro system or way of manually aliasing functions. Right now, I use require_once(nsclass(”Library::User.DataAdapter”));. How I wish I could import “Library::User.DataAdapter”;. And while I could do:
function import ($path) {
$strRoot = “/var/www/html/”;
require_once ($strRoot . str_replace (”::”, “/”, $path) . “.php”);
}
It’s just not quite right. The file is included […]
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12 March 2006
Java Sucks
Java sucks.
I mean, as a language, its at least as nice as C++. But its too verbose, misses basic newfangled syntax like foreach, and has a questionable Perl-esque namespace specifying construct. package n; versus ./n/Person.java with no package shouldn’t be compilable. If subdirectories are allowed, then lose the package construct.
Lots of their standards are nice, […]
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8 March 2006
PHP Help: get_defined_vars - PHP Manual
This is the kind of function that makes me love PHP.
Read more at www.phpfreaks.com/phpma…
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8 March 2006
PScheme
It’s a big day in the development of PScheme. As of 5:07 PM on March 07 2006, tail recursion was properly implemented. It wasn’t until 5:40 that closures were handled correctly, which meant the arglist in tailrec procedures had to be conventionally backwards, but now that works too.
So the todo list still has some big […]
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7 March 2006
Simple Commandline Debugging Fragment
One advantage the page=verb Model 1 style of coding has is that its much easier to debug. Want to know if a page works? Just access it.
So all of the sudden in Model 2, you run php controller.php or whatever. Great. Now what? How to you check if it can correctly spit out the filterlist […]