I had a little wordpress problem this morning. Wordpress kept redirecting to the install.php script. Wordpress does this when it doesn’t find the options table.

I found that the options table was corrupt. Ran a repair and everything worked as normal. Sorry for the downtime.

As requested, I’ve implemented a category search filter for hellaphone. Neither the keyword, nor the category is required, but both will filter the results. It’s up in github

search with category

New Hellaphone release at github.

Now each news post has a post description available.

It’s that time of year for half off newzbin topups. I usually top up a year, and it carries me through until half off time again. I may have some invites left for those of you that aren’t members yet.

A year of newzbin. Just link it up with your hellanzb and hellaphone

I’m a little biased here, being a ruby on rails user, although not professionally anymore. This still makes a great point that most programming purists fail to see.

The point is that the cost per request is plummeting, but the cost of programming is not. Thus, we have to find ways to trade efficiency in the runtime for efficiency in the “thought time” in order to make the development of applications cheaper. I believed we’ve long since entered an age where simplicity of development and maintenance is where the real value lies.
David Heinemeier Hansson
Tuesday, July 12, 2005

I like programming and doing it well, but I really enjoy what it enables us to do. I think it’s just the means to the end, not the end itself.

I am constantly using Expose` on my MacBook Pro. When I started working on Ubuntu at work I couldn’t remember what the setting was called that emulated expose` (at least a little bit).

It’s called scale. Alt+Shift+up is the default key combo.

Sorry about that. I got a little over zealous and moved my website without enabling mod_rewrite. Everything should be back to normal now. Maybe a little quicker.

I finally upgraded to a VPS. No more slugishness. Bought a slice at linode.com. Now I can finally have a decent solution for my rails and merb apps.

The new hellaphone at github can now monitor the queue and updates the progress. More to come soon.

What’s on the immediate horizon:

• Look and feel updates
• Slimming down the code for less to download
• Ability to reorder, pause, and delete from the queue

New release of hellaphone. I scrapped the old code, got rid of cakephp, rolled a lighter, custom framework. Got rid of the installation troublesome mod_rewrite dependancy that cakephp required. I may even end up with a super light MVC after it’s all done. Grab a copy at Github here.