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Tuesday, June 04, 2002 |
PHP SQL Generator
phpSQLGen. Ted Shieh of liquidmarkets.com has a project called phpSQLGen that might be useful to some of you. [PHP Everywhere]
I'm going to check this out later this week. I've been doing a lot of PHP & SQL lately, and there's a lot to like about it. There's a lot of it that seems less elegant that some things in Cold Fusion. At the same time, I'm a little hesitant to trust generated SQL, as SQL tuning can be an art. But it may be a quick way to get prototype pages running. Since I'm still a PHP tyro, I also see some other things here that look pretty interesting.
10:22:43 PM Permalink
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New Frontier Law
The New Frontier-Preparing the law for settling on Mars. "Like the abandoned launch fields [at Cape Canveral], the Outer Space Treaty [of 1967] needs to have its valuable parts salvaged, and the dangerous ones demolished." [MetaFilter]
A really interesting article, must reading. Though we're probably, alas, a few years away from settlements on the Moon or Mars, the water-on-Mars discoveries certainly hasten the time when we do have people living elsewhere in the Solar System. And it's hard to argue with the sentiment that it is "Far better for the settlers of Mars to enjoy the protections of the Constitution of the United States — as did the settlers of the American Territories in North America in the years before they achieved statehood. " The article also cites Robert Zubrin's book "Entering Space." That's going on my reading list.
8:44:07 PM Permalink
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New OSX Upgrade
Apple releases 10.1.5 revision for Mac OS X [The Macintosh News Network]
I just wish I used my Mac more. But I've been seduced by a very sweet ThinkPad X21 which makes my old iMac seem slow and clunky. Windows 2000 is seeming kind of clunky of late, too, but I'm not ready to go to XP (even though it looks nice on my daughter's machine), and chicken to use Linux. I use Microsoft's tools for SQL Server too often to leave the platform. One of these days I'm going to write more about this.
8:17:59 PM Permalink
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Notes from the Underground.
Muscovite mole people discovered in urban spelunking expeditions. Cool article describing the labyrinthian world beneath the streets of Moscow.
The underworld is not all rubbish, rats, and dampness. Some accommodations are well equipped--with radio, television, and heat. People cook food and bring up children. In the morning, breadwinners leave their homes through manholes to make a living. [bOing bOing]
This is an interesting companion to the recent story about life among the elite in Brazil. The William Gibson novel about people living in apartments on the SF/Oakland Bay Bridge seems less far out now.
8:15:01 PM Permalink
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Whoa. Real Networks is about to die. I just upgraded my computer, and therefore I want to install a new Real player (reluctantly). So I go to the corporate site. All I can find is a small link to the premium Real One that requires a credit card to use (although it says free). Finito. [John Robb's Radio Weblog]
I just wish people would stop putting out content using the format. The software is the moral equivalent of a virus.I had to isntall it a few weeks ago after a disk crash, and even though I said "no" to about everything I could, it still kept bothering me. I got some stupid annoying popup last night. It's one thing to have the software ask me from time to time if I want to upgrade, but they take it too far.
8:08:42 PM Permalink
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