Notes to Myself2008-11-22T01:42:24-05:00Habaritag:sagrising.cockrumpublishing.com,2008-11-22:atom_comments/15d2a9598ef268015dcf8f24e3ae63000c75e890Richard Cockrumtag:sagrising.cockrumpublishing.com,2008:wordpress-free/1225980195/6472008-11-07T12:56:11-05:00Owen, It has come a long way. It's not perfect yet, but it is usable. Thanks for laying the groundwork for it.Owentag:sagrising.cockrumpublishing.com,2008:wordpress-free/1225980195/6462008-11-07T08:27:20-05:00Wow! I am surprised every time I look at the podcast plugin, but I had no idea it had come along so far. I haven't tried it (or your podcast feed) yet, but I plan to do so very soon. Nifty!Josh Woodtag:sagrising.cockrumpublishing.com,2008:users-prefer-vista/1209068127/6412008-11-02T02:02:14-05:00FWIW, 32 bits has addresses for ~4GB of memory. Thus Elijah is gaining nothing from x64 everything on the two machines he lists, except a host of driver and application incompatibilities. In general, the textbook-definition "user" is the last fellow you want to ask about software quality.Richard Cockrumtag:sagrising.cockrumpublishing.com,2008:a-debugger-for-php/1209221017/2962008-08-13T03:49:45-04:00I'm glad it was able to help. Peter.Peter Laubetag:sagrising.cockrumpublishing.com,2008:a-debugger-for-php/1209221017/2952008-08-13T00:02:05-04:00Very useful instruction. With that i get the debugger in notepad++ working. Thank you :)Richard Cockrumtag:sagrising.cockrumpublishing.com,2008:post/1211606862/2932008-08-08T21:40:33-04:00Hi Ali, Geek? Yeah. Fast learner? I wish. :) One of the things I like about object oriented code is that it is so much easier to grasp than procedural code, and Habari makes good use of this characteristic. I'd probably still be at 1+1=2 if it weren't for it, though some of the characteristics of PHP, such as how it uses arrays and the creation of functions on the fly still looks like magic to me, magic I hope to grasp some day because it enables some amazing functionality. I have no experience with irc other than #habari, but if #habari isn't the norm for irc channels, I'm glad for I haven't experienced them. I'm glad we both found it, and the group of people that frequent it.Richard Cockrumtag:sagrising.cockrumpublishing.com,2008:the-humble-var_dump/1212488269/2922008-08-08T12:16:00-04:00As I mentioned in the post, I'm leery of outside services for spam defense, Ali. I've seen to many people have problems, including being prevented from commenting on their own blog. Even with WordPress, I've relied on Spam Karma II to do the work. My sites are none too busy, either. The combination of the simpleblacklist plugin and the spamchecker plugin have worked okay for me. I haven't had any false positives yet. As I add words and ip addresses to the blacklist the number of comments I have to moderate is going down. I'm pretty happy with the combination. As far as committing the fix - it was done long ago, and the plugin was updated to work with the new formui system. Go for it!Ali B.tag:sagrising.cockrumpublishing.com,2008:the-humble-var_dump/1212488269/2912008-08-08T11:55:00-04:00Which reminds me: Care to commit that fix please?Ali B.tag:sagrising.cockrumpublishing.com,2008:the-humble-var_dump/1212488269/2902008-08-08T11:51:57-04:00Commenting again on an relatively old post :) I started using Defensio right after Bigjibby checked it in. It worked like a charm until recently. When the service is down, my whole commenting system is down. And mostly, it slows down the whole process. I am seriously considering adapting the spamchecker+simpleblacklist combination. After all, I don't get much spam on my site anyway (ie. My site is not that popular :P)Ali B.tag:sagrising.cockrumpublishing.com,2008:post/1211606862/2892008-08-08T11:41:36-04:00It strikes me to notice that I havn't read this post until now although I got you in my feedreader. Weird. I feel I can connect with this article, I too started to learn PHP with Habari. And although I am not learning as fast as you are (you geek!), I still feel that the way Habari was written is perfect to teach people not only how to write code in PHP, but how to write it right. On top of the code itself are the people. I linger in tons of OS freenode channels and I never ever were in one like #habari. The friendliness, the will to help, the focus on the community as a whole. That was what got me to stick around and be part of this enriching experience. I am going to shut it now ;)http://api.feedburner.com/awareness/1.0/GetFeedData?uri=SagRisingComments