Alex has joined the ranks of the unwashed masses, becoming unemployed at least temporarily. Longer-term, I believe he's becoming yet another pond-scum entrepreneurial capitalist like myself. Best of luck to him.
I feel like I should offer him some advice for the long and difficult road ahead, some pithy nugget of wisdom on how to be your own boss, how to survive the tough world of 21st century business, something that will stand him in good stead for the future. So here goes: Alex, dude, don't do the PHP thing! It's not like eating your greens. It's like trying to grow them in really unfertile soil, trying to cook them in a pan with only a single match as a flame, and then eating them with one chopstick. You know what you should do ;-)
Posted by savs at December 20, 2003 12:22 PMThanks for the kind words Savs :o)
I know what you mean about PHP - sadly it is rather popular, even though it is something of a toy language. It seems every time I say anything about it, though, I get rebuked for Perlcentricity and told "right tool for the right job". I think that misses the point...
As for what I really should do, hmm, maybe I will look at Cocoon at some point. I assume it's written in that Perl language for writing odd GUIs (http://perladvent.org/2003/21st/ ), Java?
(I think your auto-URL thingy is borked, btw - try putting URLs in parens, it's a pain)
Posted by: Alex Hudson at December 26, 2003 4:58 PMI suppose if you wanted to stick with Perl, you could also give Axkit a whirl. Many cocoony features written in perl line noise. The only thing it misses is the sitemap - which is a fairly significant omission.
As for URL thingies, you need to put spaces around them (always a good idea anyway, how many times have you seen a 404 for http://foo/bar.html. ?)
So: ( http://www.andrewsavory.com/blog/ ) should work.
Posted by: Andrew Savory at December 27, 2003 12:49 AM