USENET era over

January 27th, 2005

I remember Chuq Von Rospach’s sig on USENET posts from when I first discovered it in 1989. Now, he declares the USENET era is over. Kinda sad.
I stopped using USENET when the AOL newbies flooded it, and when browser software took off and newsreader software did not.

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Whats on my Mac

January 20th, 2005

Jackson Miller asks “Whats on your Mac?” Here goes:
MySQL, PHP 4 and PHP 5 as described here. Also, phpMyAdmin. I use a personal version of squid using AdZapper because I have more storage than bandwidth.
Photoshop, Dreamweaver, BBEdit and TextWrangler.
Browsers: Camino, Firefox, iCab, Mozilla, OmniWeb, and Opera. I have a couple different versions [...]

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PHP 5 adoption

January 20th, 2005

Nexen has some statistics about PHP version adoption (via PHP Developer). It shows PHP 5 usage at 1.5%, less than the current usage of php 3 at 1.9%. It seems like people are keeping somewhat up to date in the 4.x line, at least by the 79% adoption rate of 4.3. Sadly, [...]

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nofollow and comment spam

January 19th, 2005

The rel nofollow thing is getting blogged to death today, but here are my two cents.
This won’t stop comment spam any more than spam filters stop email spam. The economics are still on the spammers side. This may have devalued the pot of gold to a pot of silver, but there will still [...]

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Mac Mini and PHP

January 11th, 2005

I read various live blogs during the Mac World event today. It was interesting to see servers melt and the strategies people used to cope. A busy day in the Apple universe.
I just want to point out that the Mac mini comes with Apache and PHP pre-installed.
If you want, compiling a [...]

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