#PHP: It's official, we're crap at cooking...

..and gardening, apparently.

<DMZ> at least there's no parsley involved
* the_angry_angel isnt a fan of parsley either
<DMZ> it's the celophane wrapper of herbs
<DMZ> completely pointless and put there to confuse and annoy

<DMZ> got a fair few in the garden, if I ever need mint, rosemary, chives, erm some other ones I can't remember, I'm sorted
<DMZ> except basil. the slugs ate that
<DMZ> in one night flat
<the_angry_angel> at least you can grow stuff like that
<DMZ> huge quantities of nice green basil one day
<DMZ> pointy green sticks the following morning
<the_angry_angel> if I even think about growing plants, things just start dying
<DMZ> oh, I'm crap at gardening too

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Learn to spell

Now I know my English isn't amazing; which it should be considering I'm natively English. However, what really annoys me is when people use the words "whit" instead of "with", "u" instead of "you", etc. etc.

Yes, I'm pendantic. No, I'm not perfect (but at least I try to get things vaguely correct). Yes, I find it fucking annoying. I just wish that the bastards would stop consciously making these spelling mistakes. Its not cool.

That is all.

The day of the Bacon

The day of Bacon: Pointless blog ramblings strike back.

Yesterday it was the "National Day of Slayer". Turns out I ended up listening to Seraphidian and American Head Charge more often than Slayer, in some strange twist of the evil known as shuffle. No great loss though, because they are pretty good bands.

Anyway, the night passes I log on this morning for work. Aside from checking digg, /., et cetera, one of the first things I decided to do was hit my recent downloads directory, where I saw The Lake, by Jono Bacon. I've got to say I absolutely love this track and I've found it to be brilliant code hacking music; its by far been my best session of code twiddling for months. Theres something about the plodding drums in the background, combined with the lyrics and an excellent riff about 3/4 of the way through, that just gets my mind focused.

Number of the beast

6.6.06; The only chance that marketing nuts will get to release a load of films, articles and so forth, banging on about the number of the beast and general evil-ness. Personally I think I'll spend this day enjoying it as the "National Day of Slayer". I probably won't listen to it at full blast as it I don't think it will go down well, but whilst phoning some colleagues? Definately.

I've started off with a modern classic: disciple.

Homicide-Suicide
Hate heals, you should try it sometime
Strive for Peace with acts of war

I'll probably follow it up with a few days of other metal'ing.

In more geeky news, Colm's talk at ApacheCon Dublin looks like it should be rather interesting. Any one feel like donating me a ticket? Well its worth a try ;)

Wt (Witty): A Widget Toolkit, for the Web

I've been looking at Wt (pronounced Witty), via Heartless on #php, for the last 30 minutes or so. I've got to say, I'm pretty impressed.

The name and concept seems inspired from Qt, or perhaps WxWidgets, and is quite robust. Hardly pretty at this stage and I've not yet hacked anything together, but quite cool. Especially if you insist on using C++ to develop your websites.

Edit:
Paul / Chip has a very good point on using Wt;

On Wit -- It takes the approach of a Widget Toolkit, heavily mixing the presentation with the 'business logic', in my experience these type of toolkit designs end up not working so well. I prefer the separate template file, which contains all of your design -- the code just sets some variables for it, ala ClearSilver or somewhat how Smarty works in PHP.

Given my frustrations in the past, in dealing with ultimatums from designers (despite implementing templated systems), I can fully understand Chip's point... Things never look as good as they initially do. Arses.

On the plus side, Chip appears to be throwing his hand into a web toolkit of his own. It'll be interesting to see what he throws together.