A new year is upon us, and while I normally don't do New Year resolutions - at least not silly ones like quit smoking, start loosing weight and spend more time with the family - I do grab the opportunity to take stock of the past and make a list of things to focus on in the future. You can call it a one-year plan, if you like. :)
I just made my very first meme, w00t! :D
This is something I see all the time, on community forums on the internet:
People tagging onto existing topics, claiming to have the same problem.
No further information. Just: "I have the same problem" and then maybe "Someone, plz help me!"
And it's kind of depressing, really.
So, I made this meme to illustrate how such a meager attempt at asking a question and get help is perceived by others.
I've just outsourced the comments system to Disqus. :)
The old comments are still there, but all new comments will be using the new system.
I sincerely hope that it benefit both this blog and all future 'commenters'. :)
I am not really fond of using text-areas in my web browser for authoring blog posts. Emacs has excellent text editing capabilities, and it has Org-Mode which is perfect for authoring structured text, like blog posts.
There is a lot of functionality in Org-Mode; it can be used for taking notes, managing TODO-lists, time planning, GTD (Get Things Done) and much more. And, as with all things Emacs, I've only touched on a small part of what it offers.
PEAR is a framework and distribution system for reusable PHP components.
A PEAR repository is installed either locally or system-wide and is tied to the machine it's installed on.
Wouldn't it be great if you could do a directory-local PEAR install? That could be freely moved around in the filesystem, including other machines? How about multiple project-specific PEAR installations? That you can submit to source control?
How do you send emails using plain PHP mail on WAMP on Windows?
Normally, PHP mail works by using Sendmail which is installed on *nixes, so it doesn't work on a Windows box. However, normally we just rewrite our code to using a SMTP server, but what about when we really don't want to - or can't - modify third-party code?
