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Entries for January 2005

January 11, 2005 at 8:31PM New books!

  1. PHP Pocket Reference: Useful to have close at hand when I’m hacking some PHP and don’t want to fiddle about with the manuals.
  2. MySQL Pocket Reference: Same reasons as above. There’s lots of little arcana you sometimes need to know and big books and the online manuals are just a pain.
  3. Version Control with Subversion: We’re going to be using Subversion for all our version control here at work as soon as I’ve a free moment to set up the repository and get TortoiseSVN and some other support software on all the machines.
  4. Mind Hacks: I’d this preordered in Micromail for ages and got a copy as soon as it was off the presses.
  5. iPod and iTunes Hacks: I haven’t got a chance to fiddle with my shiny new iPod yet, but I intend on getting as much out of it as possible. And on the topic of Apple, the Mac Mini and iPod Shuffle (the tiny new Flash-based iPod) look pretty nifty!

January 16, 2005 at 5:38AM I want StringTemplate for PHP

Ever since reading Terence Parr’s Enforcing Strict Model-View Separation in Template Engines (PDF), I’ve wanted something like StringTemplate for PHP.

Maybe not something exactly the same, but a templating system that would perform similarly as far as the person developing the templates would be concerned, but the coder populating the templates would instead be talking to a class generated from the template itself. In essence, a StringTemplate compiler for PHP.

But is there anything like that? Unfortunately, no. It’d almost drive a man to write something like it...

January 16, 2005 at 7:15AM More new books: The Scar and Describing Morphosyntax

Sales are great. I picked up a copy of China Miéville’s The Scar in Hardback for next to nothing!

Also, Waterstones--possibly one of the world’s more maligned bookstores right now--finally managed to source a copy of Describing Morphosyntax for me. I placed an order for it two months ago, and it only came on Friday. This is the conlanger’s bible, a field linguist’s manual, and at €31.65, not cheap. But it rocks!