Licensing of software is an important, fascinating, and very difficult to understand subject. Developers, some of the people who are affected the most by licensing issues, have the most difficult time understanding the different types of license that are available. I know I do.

I've been blogging for over two years now. Like most people, I started on a service, Blogger in my case. It didn't take me long to want more control than Blogger would give me, so I began looking around and found WordPress. For most of the time since then, WordPress has served me well. I built Shards of Consciousness on...

jQuery is a popular Javascript library that sees a lot of use in web programming. It simplifies many scripting tasks and is easily extensible with plugins.

When we're blogging, one of the things we don't tend to think about is the state of our database. As with the oil in our car, as long as it works, we tend to ignore it.

A team from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine is reporting that people who are obese are one of the driving forces behind global warming.

Has your email ever become eerily silent? As in empty. You're not getting any. That happened to me recently. I was getting messages in some accounts, so I just thought I wasn't getting any mail --- until my wife sent me a message and I didn't get it. I use Thunderbird for a client, so usually I just click the ...

Recently Habari updated it's administrative code to use a new interface. The new interface relies much more heavily on javascript than the old one did, which allows it to pull off some pretty snifty tricks. One of these is on the entries page, where a list of all the posts you have written is displayed.

If you've read any Isaac Asimov or seen the movie Bicentennial Man, you've heard the term positronic brain. The positronic brain was the factor that gave Asimov's robots their consciousness and decision-making abilities.

The three plugins I had written - MetaDescription, MetaTitle, and MetaKeywords - are no longer available from this site, nor are they supported.

One of the things I've missed most in learning PHP is a debugger. A debugger is a necessity for productive work in any programming language. You need a debugger to step through code to understand how it works and is being called. You need a debugger to examine variables.