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LAMP for Windows Only

tylerdave — Tue, 22 Apr 2003 00:26:17 +0000

I followed a link on O’Reilly’s ONLamp.com to take a survey about what topics I’d like to see covered on the site. When I clicked on the link, instead of being able to take the survey, I was told that my browser is not supported. Being an Opera user, I’m used to dealing with this kind of ignorance, but I expect better from O’Reilly.

ONLamp.com is supposed to be a resource for developers and users of LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl, PHP, Python) systems. To limit the survey to Windows users by using Zoomerang’s survey system is obviously short-sighted. Hopefully next time they’ll choose a more tolerant survey system, maybe even one that utilizes LAMP technology.

(I could have changed Opera’s User-Agent string to report as Mozilla or IE but that’s not the point)

New Year’s Activities

tylerdave — Wed, 01 Jan 2003 03:12:45 +0000

I’m trying to get a stripped-down version of Python 2.2 installed in my home directory on my web host.

Megan is asleep on the couch.

How are you spending your New Year’s Eve?

Turing Tar Pit

tylerdave — Thu, 07 Nov 2002 16:07:30 +0000

For some reason that I can’t recall, I was looking for a definition of a Turing tar-pit.

That’s when I found The Turing Tarpit, a collection of links to programming languages that exemplify the ‘far too painful to use’ portion of the definition.

That led me to the even more in-depth Esoteric Topics in Computer Programming.

You have to be a geek to appreciate.

Going on Safari

tylerdave — Sat, 12 Oct 2002 05:02:02 +0000

I finally broke down and signed up for a Safari account today. Safari gives you online access to tons of computer books by O’Reilly and other publishers. For $10/month you get access to up to five different books.

I started doing some development with Zope this week so I wanted a good book on the subject, but I couldn’t justify spending $35-$50 on a book that I may not use that much. Safari seems like the perfect solution.

If you want to try it for yourself, you can get a 14-day free trial and cancel before it ends.

Amazon Web Services

tylerdave — Mon, 09 Sep 2002 14:58:59 +0000

For a while I’ve wanted to put together a list of all of the books that I own, to make a sort of catalog for myself. I really didn’t want to write down all the info for each book and I also thought that having cover images would be cool. I couldn’t think of any nice and easy way to do this until I stumbled upon Amazon Web Services. The interface w/ Amazon is really simple (they allow SOAP or XML over HTTP) and I’ve been looking for some practical use for my beginner’s knowledge of XML. So far, I have a form to search Amazon for books and display the result. I will be refining it more in the coming days.