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Month: August 2008
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PHP4 is Officially Dead
Today is the final day of support for PHP4. Luckily I have been using PHP5 for quite a long time and have been happy with it. I do not think I use all of the features that would make it a nasty upgrade, like some people do.
I try my hardest to keep all of my software (especially for bowlingball.com) up to date with the latest release. Knowing that support and upgrades will eventually be dropped, it is important for me to stay current.
This is often easier said than done…. 🙂
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Writing Pluggable PHP Code
I have been looking around at writing pluggable code. It intrigues me that you can write a system and then extend it for other users. Open Source software is all about the community contributing, and plugins are the latest way to let your community help build your system.
Here are the keys to writing plugins that I have found so far:
Identify all of your API requirements. What are the key points to your system. For wordpress, there are hundreds of such “hooks”.
You will most likely want two (2) hooks at every point that you want developers to change. Pre and Post.
Your code is very simple at this point.
<your code>
<Call Plugins for hook ABC>
ABC
<your code>
If you are going to print something to the screen, you can
<get info to be printed>
<Call plugins to modify info>
print info
<continue…>
I read Chris Corbyn’s “Writing a pluggable system in php” for more information.
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My First Podcast Mention
Thanks so much to the Moxie Mo Show for giving me my first podcast mention. He is correct, watching videos in iTunes makes it very easy to watch your favorite podcasts, but just as difficult to leave comments.
PodCasters love and need your comments. I wrote an article about what I believe iTunes needs/should do. Other podcatchers, like Miro, should do so as well, but right now iTunes seems to dominate the market.
I do not own an iPod, Zune, or any other media player for that matter. I have always been into “tech”, but not much into music, therefore I did not see any need for these devices.
Then in December 2007, I started carpooling with Brian Halstrom and got into a couple of “PodCasts”. I have heard of them before, but never gave them any credit. You may see a couple of low quality ones and assume they are all like that.
Then I find Revision 3. A company started by Kevin Rose and Jay Andelson. And anyone that knows the old Tech TV, will know Kevin Rose. Man do I miss the old Tech TV days, I loved it.
Back to my point. Revision 3 is creating awesome “TV Quality” shows for the Internet. As broadband becomes more available to the masses, we are going to see more and more push to the Internet.
All of the big cable stations are already moving to the Internet as well. They are making there content available online, because that is where we spend huge parts of our day.
Broadcasting will become a thing of the past. There are so many cable channels now, that they are basically Narrowcasting as it is. It is just costing an arm and a leg to be on the cable networks.
The LA Times wrote a great article on this subject. Check it out, it is fascinating.
Revision3’s web TV runs on star power