Church vs Science...

This Open Letter to Kansas School District must be one of the more creative arguments posted so far in the US debate of teaching Intelligent Design vs Evolution theory in schools...

In short, if you replace the word god with another and take two unrelated (but true) statistics and put them together to prove a point you will get this...

It's absolutely breathtakingly funny while scary since it shows that people will grasp any arguments to prove a point they desperately need to be true...
Go read the Open Letter :)

/Dan

After my site being down for a couple of weeks due to massive hardware failure it's fixed and up again. Unfortunately the ftp has changed in a way that doesn't allow my old blog here at blogger to publish to it... Sigh, so here we go, a new one at blogspot...

On another note, I'm into a new tutorial for www.gurusnetwork.com this will be a pattern based PHP/MySQL guestbook.
It will be available as Open Source as well when it's done :)
'til the next blurb... /Dan

Finally the server is back up...
My friend Rob who is gratiously hosting www.dmsproject.com has totally rebuilt the server after some critical parts blew up and now it's up and running again :)
Super thanx!

So what's up now?
I'm just back from a 4 week vacation, it was superb!
Then as I got home my 80Gb hd blew up... it just clicks and cannot be found anymore :(
That's all the mails from 2001 and forward... Documents and more...
Luckily ALL my digital photos & webcode are safely stored on another computer...

Bummer, I'll tell you that!
Now I'm off to shop for 2 new big drives and a raid controller to mirror ALL data from now and onwards, never again will this happen to me! (I hope...)
'til the next time, Cheers
/Dan

Finally, it's up :)
16'th march we released the project I've been managing for the last months, a complete rewrite of what's probably the biggest poker community around today. 100% OOP/PHP multi-tier architecture, a super sweet db-design that purrs like a cat with 100 selects/sec and 15-20 inserts/updates/deletes/sec...

It's the work of 3 ServerSide coders, 1 dba, a designer and a template maker and little 'ole me + some assorted help. 2,5 months designing & coding plus a lot of planning and here it is :
Pokah! PokerRoom.com
Whoo :)
/Dan

AMP (Apache/MySQL/PHP) on USB.
I've been thinking of getting a small, working portable development enviroment up and running for a while now. Something that I could take with me and use on what ever PC I was at for the moment. What I didn't want to do was to install the whole package on a PC that wasn't mine so I started thinking of using an USB stick.

After reading a short tutorial over at firepages where he described getting PHP5, Apache and MySQL onto USB I got to work.

After a lot of hacking and cursing around problems with not using the drive letters in php.ini and httpd.conf I decided to try a ready made package:

I went with xampp lite, an appr 50Mb large package that can be found here:
http://www.apachefriends.org/download.php?xampplite-win32-1.4.12-pl1.exe

I unpacked the zip through the downloaded .exe into a folder on the desktop, copied the folder xampplite to the root of the USB, entered the folder and clicked xampp_start.exe

Whoops... a complete WAMP install on usb that works...
This install offers quite a lot, phpmyadmin for example so I uploaded my CMS-beta, loaded the db and started...
It works! Smarty and everyting :)

I'm using a 128 Mb USB 2 memory stick and that's probably minimum if it should be usable.

Now, what are you waiting for... Go try it :)
/Dan

Hi there, long time no writing... Sorry...

Life good to ya? Mine is :)
Remember I told you I got a new job? Well not only that, I got a promotion as well! It took 4 months, heck I'm still on my 6 month trial period...

From regular programmer to doing oop system architecture for a complete rewrite of a section of the site, plus running a 6 person project as technical project manager.

4 weeks into that project and we are 85% ready and meeting deadlines, the manager steps up and says "I'd like you to work full time as technical project manager, how about it?"

Guess what, I said yes :)
Sometimes it pays off to take that extra step.

'til the next blurb/Dan

So, I've been hysterically busy lately and not much news to note.
It's funny, once you've officially decided to leave freelancing and got yourself a steady job, the phone starts ringing...

In one month I've gotten 3 job offers and a series of requests for short small gigs... Go figure :) It's nice some ppl like what I have to offer though.

On that note I'll post a link to A very flexible all css layout that I've managed to get together. It works in IE 6, FF on PC and Safari on Mac. IE on Mac is a no go, Opera is so so but on the whole I like it, a lot.
Take a look, perhaps you might pick up something useful, who knows :)
Cheers/Dan

How cool is this!
Not only did I recently manage to get a swedish client #1 on Google with his commercial webshop under the exact terms he wanted... :)

Now this...
The DAO VO Generator I built has really hit home with google...
It's not only featured at my main site, it's available as a utility at http://www.gurusnetwork.com/ as well, and look and behold.
Today 2004-10-29 it holds the 4 top spots in google when you search for 'dao vo generator'... Wow...
Google Search: dao vo generator
With that response I've bundled it and released it under LGPL.

You can find it here: http://www.dmsproject.com/test/dao_...o_generator.zip

It's been a good week so far :)
/Dan

Just back from a poker tournament.
At my new job at http://www.ongame.com/ where we amongst other things develop & maintain http://www.pokerroom.com/ , one of the top 6 online poker sites in the world the management decided to kickstart the internal poker interest.

Said & done, they started "clash of the staff", an internal Texas Hold 'em poker 2 day tournament with a first prize that was pretty amazing...
An all paid ticket to Vegas for the WSOP 2005!
Almost forgot, it included the $10.000 buyin as well...

We were 93 entered with the buyin at $1.000, the first day was played online until 40 remained, the next set was live with dealers and everything.

After the first day I was in 9'th place with $3.450 in chips, unfortunately it all went downhill from there as we went live :(
I ended up somewhere around 30'th place after a serious streak of bad pocket cards, rotten flops, worse rivers and players that folded every time I had a hand worth playing... grrr!

On the other hand, in June I didn't know Texas Holdem from a burrito... so I guess I'll be back for the next one.

Yup, one more chance is coming up this spring :) The company is sending 2 of us to WSOP 2005 :)
How cool is it to work at a place where poker at work is encouraged :)

Cheers/Dan

It's live!
Probably not a big thing for you, but it's sort of a biggie for me. The DAO VO Generator is finally alive and released for public use. Please pop over and give it a try, it now contains a mini tutorial, plus it ties in very well as the last step of three with the other two tutorials on PHP MySQL I've written for the gurusnetwork. The first one covered the creation of a miniature database driven site with an admin interface, this focused on procedural coding. The second one built on the first and converted the procedural code to OOP. This last one gives you the foundation to accomplish the same ting by using a basic design pattern. :) I'm pleased, will you be? Test it...
Main Page: Utilities: The Gurus Network

So, I've gotten some help from a guy over at the gurusnetwork to work out some of the regexp problems I've had with the generator. Now it works a lot better, in specific, now it handles both `' and nothing around the table- and fieldnames in the sql statement.

DmS DAO & VO DB-access Generator: Utilities: The Gurus Network

Wow!
This site searches the web for copies of the spage you enter the url for. I did a search on a tutorial I wrote and found it word by word in a forum...
Impressive to say the least, I'll play more with this to be sure.

For now, try it out yourself ;)

Copyscape - Website Plagiarism Search - Web Content Copyright Infringement Protection

Cheers/Dan

Today I'm getting really close to the final release of a PHP Code generator.

The tool generates all code needed to connect to and work with a MySQL database. It does this from the actual sql script that generates the database.
This means that you can with two clicks generate a database in mysql and get all the OOP code you need to work with it. :)

Yup, OOP... The generated code is based on the DAO & VO/TO patterns. Enough said here, you can follow the release discussion here: Guru Gab - Not a tutorial, a brand new utility in that thread there are links to the actual tool as well.

Cheers/Dan

Whoot!
I just got offered a steady job!
Yup, after 2.5 years of "non-chosen" self-employment & freelancing the place where I'm currently contracted said yes to my question if they would be interested of having me full time!

This means a steady paycheck, paid vacation and all the regular things, basically, i can now plan my life for me & the family again :)

As it's signed I'll post more deatils-
Laters/Dan

So, I went and got myself a blog...
Yup, I thought I'd just as well might have a little place of my own to post general ramblings and other mumbojumbo that I's like to get off my chest.

I do have a regular website of course, www.dmsproject.com that is more geared towards my development of a CMS in PHP/MySql. That's also a place where I publish small toys that I make. The latest one is a code generator.

You probably know of OOP, Object Oriented Programming.
Well, I've gotten into that lately, and one thing I want to use basically all the time is a representation of the database as objects in my code. I want to use DAO or Data Access Objects.

I'm also lazy, so I don't want to be hacking the same code over and over again so I decided to create a little tool that creates the code for me.

Take a look here: http://www.dmsproject.com/test/dao_generator/ and give it a whirl, who knows, you just might like it ;)

Cheers/Dan