Dr Grordbort

Recent Articles

• Esoteric Functionality

  November 19, 2008 in development, php, technical, yak

  I’ve just added (the beginnings of) a new feature to YAK (user-funded development) that will probably only be useful to one or two users — but it’s worth mentioning anyway.

  [yak_get_remote...] is a new tag which…

• Potential Features

  November 11, 2008 in LAMP/MAMP, development, php, technical, yak

  This post is to capture (in one place) a number of features (and thoughts around those features) that have been suggested for future versions for YAK, both via email, and on the Suggestions page.…

• ARTS, or the lack thereof

  November 7, 2008 in commentary, development, technical, yak

  I’ve been looking at providing a basic xml product feed through YAK (needed for some rather esoteric customer requirements) — at the experimental stage, rather than a feature that will actually make it into development…

• Quote of the Day…

  October 21, 2008 in commentary, miscellaneous, technical

  …goes to Roy Fielding for the excellent:

  That is RPC. It screams RPC. There is so much coupling on display that it should be given an X rating

• Word on the Mac is a Mess

  October 17, 2008 in commentary, miscellaneous

  I don’t like Excel much either. The lack of VBA macro support means it’s useless for the purpose I originally bought it for — teach me to not double-check the specs before I buy.

  Worse yet,…