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Archive for October, 2004

Agressive IT Antipattern : You're Not Gonna Need It (when you'll file for Chapter 11)

Nice excerpt from an Inc. article :
Future Beef's real albatross, says Darrell Wilkes, was an expensive computer system that ran enormously complex software from J.D. Edwards. “We were pouring all this data in, but we could never get the data out,” says Wilkes, whose job, as the company's cattle and supply expert, was to monitor [...]

Searching for a working Python plugin in Eclipse 3.0M3 ?

If Trustudio Python plugin stops functioning after installing the shiny new Eclipse 3.0M3, try pydev instead. I've been using it for the last few hours - so far, so good. Well, you'll get nothing more than some syntax coloring, but that's the current level of all Python plugins for Eclipse for now.

XML descriptors in PHP frameworks - considered harmful

No, I am not a seasoned PHP programmer and I do not intend to become one. But we do live in a harsh economy where all IT projects are worth considering, thus my occasional incursions in the world of of PHP-driven websites.
I am not new to PHP either, but - coming from a Java world [...]

MVC and Front Controller frameworks in PHP - more considerations

Having recently stumbled upon this thread on Sitepoint community forums, I found a certain Mr. Selkirk advocating page controllers instead of front controller - meaning that the state machine logic is distributed in each page/state. I have some pragmatic problems with the approach since this means that a large (hundreds of pages) site would imply [...]

Lost in Bind-land ? Dnsmasq comes to rescue

Short sample from the rants of a software engineer temporarily converted into a lazy network administrator…
Should you ever need to install a forwarding DNS proxy on Debian, which also acts as DNS for the local network, don't even think about using Bind. This is a very powerful tool, but can be difficult to configure, definitely [...]

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