I attended a session today on PHPUnit, the PHP framework for testing your code. I felt as though this was a significant software solution that must be talked about, considering I'd never heard of it before.

Before I begin though, and so others are aware of the general gist of stuff that was talked about at the conference, I want to go over the ( Read more... )

Well, I've been at the Zend/PHP conference in San Jose, CA since Sunday. The tutorials began on Monday, and with the beginning, I recognized a HUGE diversity gap. There were plenty of Americans, Canadians and Britans who were speaking English, but as I sit here typing this there are 3 individuals speaking French (could be Canadian and not French ( Read more... )

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Okay, so when I got into Work this past Friday, I was greeted by an email in my inbox asking about my sending of email over the weekend. Here's a nice little box that the administrator (Tom G. from CIS for those who are interested) sent me:

CODE:
Host/Domain Summary: Messages Received

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This past week I went to Piscataway, NJ to visit IEEE headquarters and converse with my peers from all over the United States. The event: IEEE University Partnership Program Summit. The goal: Allowing us to express concerns and needs from IEEE, network with peers, and learn much more about IEEE than we knew in the past.

If you would like a short ( Read more... )

As far as I was aware, forms were simply supposed to be wrappers to allow the browser to determine which elements inside are supposed to be used with particular forms. Well, according to some browsers, now they have properties to modify the way a page look by default.

Both Opera 9 and Safari seem to have this really messed up view on the fact that ( Read more... )

If you by chance be building eterm in Gentoo and get the following error:

CODE:
gcc -Os -march=pentium4 -pipe -o .libs/Eterm main.o  -L/usr/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib ./.libs/libEterm.so /usr/lib/libImlib2.so

/usr/lib/libfreetype.so -lz /usr/lib/libttf.so -ldl -lutempter /usr/lib/libast.so -lSM -lICE /usr/lib/libpcre.so -lXmu -lXext -lX11
-lutil -lm -Wl,-- ( Read more... )

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Moveon.org (a political activist group that I listen to every now and then - listserv-wise) has free bumper stickers to rally support for this upcoming fall's elections. I just ordered myself one. If you are interested in finding out more, go here:

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Gateway (business) technical support has really pissed me off from the get go. Not only does their website not provide any half-way decent support documents on several different trouble cases, but it also fails via the phone for the following reasons:

• They make accusations of things you didn't ever say you did.
• They won't support something they post ( Read more... )