What Mike Does All Day

Memory

Just added 512 M of memory to my $100 iMac (thanks joey!), for a grand total of 768 M. AHHHHHH, That's better.

also:

got 10 servers up at the ol' hoover shack, plus a redundant network of speakasy DSL and Comcast cable. YEAH, WATCH THAT POWER METER SPIN LIKE A 15K SCSI DRIVE!.

umm, that's it for now.

KissMyGrits

Magic Quotes And Add Slashes In PHP

I'm working on weblog/whatever input software, in PHP. This is old gnu's, but a nice refresher:

Harry Fuecks on magic quotes and add slashes

PHP Shorthand Syntax

A compact (if cryptic) shorthand is useful:

echo "var is ".($var < 0 ? "negative" : "positive");

is equivalent to:

echo "var is ";
if ($var < 0)
echo "negative";
else
echo "positive";

The shorthand can be considered (expression ? true_value : false_value) where 'expression' is evaluated and, if true, the 'true_value' is returned, otherwise the 'false_value' is returned.

Emacs

So, yes...today, I decided to go through the Emacs tutorials (I learned emacs pretty well in 1996-97 as the first unix editor I could do anything with, then started using pico, and promptly forgot everything about emacs). Gaza has been on my ass for years -- "dooode, you must start using emacs for coding." I have resisted. I'm not sure why I have been resisting; laziness, I suppose. I just got used to vi (because I HAD to get used to it real quick when I got dumped into a sucklaris-only job). Before my crash course in vi, pico was nice and friendly and did all the junk I wanted.

So, ALAS, I have come FULL CIRCLE, like a Skywalker. I'm back to learning Emacs.

PS- I originally was drawn to Emacs because I'd read that you could code macros for it in the A.I. Language Lisp!!! PLUS, I could look at the Mayan Calendar right inside the editor. I thought these were the KOOLEST features ever.