What is the Holy Grail? Depends on who you ask. Some may think that it’s the object orientated “Ruby on Rails” but others still use functional coding. There’s room for everyone.
This combination of Smarty, PHP and Ajax is interesting. There are a few links in the comments to other PHP toolkits including PHP on Trax which is based on the same idea as the previously mentioned Rails project.
Must study and try out later.
Author Archives: Donncha
Kmymoney – financial tracking software
Pimp Your Firefox – SEO Extensions Edition
Lots of Firefox extensions that I must try out.
Blended Exposures Revisted
DP&I.com: Blended Exposures Revisted – neat method of getting a little more dynamic range from your photos. Not suer if the GIMP can create a luminosity mask but similar methods can be used to get the same effect.
String Tripod
string tripod – I might try this as I could tie the string to my small portable tripod quite easily!
Screensaver vs Movies
If you use mplayer to play your movies then add this line to ~/.mplayer/config to turn off Xscreensaver. Much better than hitting CTRL every few minutes!
# Write your default config options here!
stop-xscreensaver=1
Web Application Security Reviews
John Lim lists some of the requirements for an “enterprise” financial application. I’ve never gone to the lengths John has to pass such an audit but I can imagine it wasn’t easy!
Canon CPS 14
Canon CPS has been updated. Looks like a few good reads!
Fun Lovin' Criminals Play Cork
Fun Lovin’ Criminals will play in the Savoy, Patrick St. Cork on the 7th September.
Squeakland – computing for kids
Niall, who should know, says Squeakland is “incredible”. I haven’t tried it myself, but it’s described as “media authoring tool” and is available for Windows, Mac OS, Linux and Unix! Check the “What is Squek?” page for more.
30 years ago this was a fantasy about how children would learn science and math some day on their own notebook personal “Dynabooks”. After many years of building and testing these ideas, today this scenario is real.