look what i found!

see, i thought it was just me. i thought, well, gemma, you probably shouldn't be trying to inherit from base singletons anyway. you're not really a programmer, what do you know? go play with bash, you'll feel better. (incidentally, i did it anyway and just felt dirty.) but no! it's the language! check out the bottom of her brother's post, the part that mentions engine-level changes being necessary. not to mention that list of honest-to-goodness bugs.

ah, i feel better. more whole (except you can't really be "more whole"--either you're whole or you're not...). validated. no half-hearted-pun intended.

i'm all moved in! hurrah! ssh and subversion are all set up and running beautifully, and (obviously) this old blog has been migrated. currently trying to decide whether i should develop on my laptop (which would really require a php/apache installation for both windows and linux) or just get down and dirty with vi. i used xored trustudio back in the day, which is an awesome ide for php (i have absolutely no idea why it gets rotten reviews, people must be stupid), but combined with eclipse the download is over 100mb. not a big deal for an eight-megabit pipe, but really: is it worth it? ideally, i'd have apache, php, and eclipse with the trustudio and simpletest plugins, but to set that up in both operating systems would be a serious headache. ok, jeez, not a headache per se, just a very long, long exercise in tedium.

on the other hand, coding a big (big for me, lemme alone) application in vi could be a really good experience. i could get svn set up on both sides (it's already up in windows) in case i needed to do offline coding for some reason, and live the rest of the time in putty.

hm. feel free to offer suggestions.

o, and i should mention my only disappointment so far: i can't modify config directives for php5, because it's running over cgi (thus cutting out .htaccess) and it's not phpsuexec-ed. so my inner anti-magic_quotes-nazi will be prepending an ini_set()/kill-the-magic file to everything. naturally, my mind has been casting back to the other host i considered, which runs php5 exclusively as an apache module, and which i ultimately decided against because they have no track record...

ramblinations is moving to a new host. there may be some down time. that's all.

update: looks like the initial transfer has gone swimmingly. you may have noticed my new IP address, there in the URL bar. welcome to network redux. all's (is that legal? a contraction of a contraction?) left to do is switch the domain and cancel my old hosting.

just a quickie: some tech guy (ok fine, christopher koch) distills a recent slashdot thread and offers an analysis. hysterical:

My bosses want to be kept informed at all times. However, trust me and let me do my job. When I fix something, don't ask me what was wrong or how I fixed it. I don't have time to explain to you what you learn in 2 semesters of network infrastructure classes. Just back off and you'll be surprised how much an IT person will get done. Sometimes you just have to accept, 'It was a problem with the hosts file and it was throwing off sendmail' without probing into sendmail.mc theory. And as far as explaining it in non-techie terms, I can only dumb down SSH tunnels and the TCP/IP protocol so much before I want to jab myself in the eye with a spork. OK boss, it works likes this. A computer stands up and yells, 'Hey Server!!!' All the computers hear it, but only the server yells back, 'Yeah, what do you want?'

go read it.

i would have sideblogged this, but i lost the bookmarklet and i'm too lazy to go get it. a pbs columnist forecasts doom for microsoft. (no, it's actually an interesting article, i promise.) enjoy!