M.G.A.P.S --> Maximum Galoots Atypical PHP Soapbox!PHP rants and general pressure reliefLove is the province of the Brave- (Found July 11, 2008 ) Suddenly, all your history's ablaze Try to breath as the world desintegrates Just like autumn leaves we're in for change Holding tenderly to what remains And all your memories are as precious as gold And all the honey and the fire which you stole Have you running through all your red cheek days Shaking loose these songs from their sacred hiding space Hold your heart courageously as we walk into this dark place Stand, stare fast, erect and see that love is the province of the brave Push under..http://mgaps.highsidecafe.com/index.php?p=152&c=1 I'm really up in the air here- (Found July 11, 2008 ) I'm really hip on the idea of deleting this blog completely. Not sure what to do. It was getting pounded from trackback and comment spam. I just got tired of it but it's time to do something about it (I've said that twice before (I've said that twice before). The comments table was over 60 megabytes. I finally just dumped it to a file, gzip'd it, and truncated the table. b2 is the worst code in the world. :-(http://mgaps.highsidecafe.com/index.php?p=144&c=1 I'm lazy- (Found July 11, 2008 ) This weekend would be a perfect weekend to cut the springs on my car. I just don't want to do anything. It's Thanksgiving and when you get right down to it, I don't even need the car. Some of it has to do with the fact that I don't feel I have the proper tools so I'm just not comfortable digging into it. OTOH, I think I'll hook up that RCA cable for my sub and make a rock sheild for my oil cooler. Those are things that can't possibly leave me without a car between here and Tuesday when I go...http://mgaps.highsidecafe.com/index.php?p=145&c=1 Ruby and employment- (Found July 11, 2008 ) Well, it looks like I finally go back to work after looking for some time. I'll be employed with a company (start up) called Pay Per Post. It looks like it's going to be a blast. I'll actually be coding in Ruby and Ruby on Rails. I spent the weekend hackin' as a matter of fact. After going dark with a copy of "Ruby In A Nutshell", Google, and plenty of coffee, I hacked out a small command line app that stores phone numbers and emails for people. Anyway, and for those that don't know, the...http://mgaps.highsidecafe.com/index.php?p=146&c=1 Sylvanna is on blocks- (Found July 11, 2008 ) Well, figuratively speaking at least. When I get back home tonight I will prolly go out for a spin even though I shouldn't. The problem relates back to my hybrid 15g install. It's a 13c hotside15g coldside. When putting it together I definitely noticed some inout play at the back (exhaust) of the CHRA. As a result, it's letting oil past. While idling it will let lightly mist the area with blue smoke. That's not good! If I let shut the car off then restart it a couple of moments later, it will.http://mgaps.highsidecafe.com/index.php?p=147&c=1 Which turbo to buy- (Found July 11, 2008 ) After some discussion over at Turbobricks about options in turbochargers, it's about time to make a decision. Any more pondering will border on Barney'ism. The objective of the car is simply to be a killer street car with a broad power band of useable power. Even as it it now, I've accomplished that objective. The car has mad grunt on the bottom end and absolutely steller roll on performance. The only downside is that I've not met my power goal which at first was 250hp, but has been moved to..http://mgaps.highsidecafe.com/index.php?p=148&c=1 Work is essentially halted!- (Found July 11, 2008 ) Yeah, I've not been able to get anything related to Turbine Dump since I've taken this new job. I've got to get moved! I leave for work at 6AM and get home around 8PM. That's far too long of a day to expect to get anything of substance done away from work. Man, I'm tired!http://mgaps.highsidecafe.com/index.php?p=149&c=1 Programming sure is a bummer these days!- (Found July 11, 2008 ) And it's not the programming that's bad. It's the environment. Other coders and the tribalreligous side of it. My last job hunt and recent things I read over at Loud Thinking have really driven this home for me. For the sake of brevity, let's just talk about Loud Thinking. Joel Spolsky recently posted a piece called "Language Wars" and really managed to step on some toes from those that drink the koolaid: the Ruby Devout. Of the things that he said, there are certainly a couple of points that.http://mgaps.highsidecafe.com/index.php?p=150&c=1 Soooo true!- (Found July 11, 2008 ) It's so so true. This is what I read over at Joels. One of the unfortunate side effects is that your mind gets into a bad habit of overestimating how clearly it understands things. It always thinks it has The Big Picture even when it doesn&8217;t. This is a particularly dangerous trap when it comes to software development. You get some big picture idea in your head for what you want to do, and it all seems so crystal clear that it doesn&8217;t even seem like you need to design anything....http://mgaps.highsidecafe.com/index.php?p=151&c=1 It's about time! Google finally does something concerning comment spam.- (Found July 11, 2008 ) Jason posted a link to something on Google (dated today as a matter of fact) that should make bloggers all over Dodge happy. Basically it'a an attribute (rel="nofollow") that should be added to any hyperlinks generated by the comment (or whatever) functionality of ones blog software. It's obvious then that the Google Spider will not follow these links and any gain from the comment in the first place becomes nill. Now this doesn't stop the comments from coming in. But once spammers realize...http://mgaps.highsidecafe.com/index.php?p=143&c=1 |