Archive for March, 2004
Codeflakes
March 31st, 2004 • General, Perl, PHP
Today, Codeflakes project just started. It’s an application development framework designed to simplify developers’ job with least overhead and hassle.
I’m a big fan of thee “P” languages (Perl, PHP and Python). I’m a fan of Perl’s flexibility and its do-what-i-mean principle. I’m a fan of PHP’s ease of deployment and integration with Apache. I’m a fan of Python’s clean syntax and immediate integration with C applications.
Now being a fan of these three languages, and trying to dig my way through tons of code writting for these languages, I’ve decided to roll my own development framework, defying programmers’ holy moto “Do NOT reinvent the wheel!”.
Codeflakes isn’t just wheel reinvention, it isn’t yet another framework that tells developers to do this, do that, bug here, fix that, etc. It’s, or at least will be, designed to be simple, unified, easy to use, and most of all, runs on three “P” languages. Hopefully, this project wouldn’t die as many other open-source projects do. I’ll personally keep developing it, and if I’m lucky enough, others would join in too.
There are a lot of decisions to make, lots of discussions to take place, and a roadmap to define. I’ll be doing those shortly.
For more information about this project, please visit it’s website http://www.codeflakes.com.
The Irony of Design Theft
March 20th, 2004 • General
While I was reading The Price of Theft at mezzoblue, I noticed a comment about Andy Budd wanting to remove his design from CSS Zen Garden.
Now this is kind of off-topic, I’m not planing to comment on Dave’s nor Andy’s post. I’m going to apologize to Andy Budd for the similarity between my design and his. Honestly, this is the first time I visit Andy Budd’s website, and I was struck by how both sites look alike.
I know how Andy would feel about this, so I’m going to change my site’s design as soon as possible. Hopefully, this will be considered “unintentional stealing”.
Anti-weblog
March 19th, 2004 • General
Being busy with yet another CMS project for one of clients, I didn’t have the chance to add anything to my blog. Spent a lot of head-scratching time trying to figure out what should I post about, after all, I wouldn’t like my blog to become one of the “I love my pet cat” kind of thing.
So I started browsing Google for some subjects, mostly things related to blogs, and I stumbled upon some articles about people who really hate bloggers and blogging, they don’t even recognize the word Blog.
DMCA Got My Google!
March 9th, 2004 • 4 comments Rants
Recently, I started seeing a strange message that appears at the bottom of search results in Google.
In response to a complaint we received under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, we have removed (N) result(s) from this page. If you wish, you may read the DMCA complaint for these removed results.
Now this isn’t very friendly, is it?. Google has always been a place where you could find the good and the bad, the legal and the illegal. So why does it have to submit to DMCA?!
JIFTLOG-NARADIT!
March 2nd, 2004 • 4 comments Rants
For the wondering ones, JIFTLOG-NARADIT stands for:
JIFTLOG-NARADIT Is: For The Love Of God, Not Another Recursive Acronym Damn IT!