OlleOlleOlle in “the news”

[Peter Rukavina](http://www.ruk.ca/) blogs about Olleolleolle. I get credit for my lack of show-off tendencies in my web writing. That’s right: I’m self-employed. The bread I make (to pay for the bread I *bake*) comes from my entrepreneurial efforts in “the Internet industry”. The reception party is yet to come. (These ain’t the 90s, but a …

Kiva: Loans to microbusinesses in the third world

Today I read some Seth Godin, and it turns out he is a great person. (Who’s Seth? A marketing guru. (Read more at Wikipedia.) He explains the service Kiva, which is a “microlending system”. > Kiva lets you connect with and loan money to unique small businesses in the developing world. Read more about Kiva’s …

Cake PHP framework in alpha

Release announcement for “cake_0.10.0.1217_alpha”, which is more stable than any other release. Most of all, this release is about making the developer experience more cohesive, and “orthogonal”. Method calls and return values look more or less the same everywhere, and when you grok how Cake hangs together, it becomes easier to make web apps. I …

The end of the world is nigh. Newspeak is rife.

I heard the news today. That’s because I get up earlier. Part of a program of working smarter. On the news was a single Reuters story, just spoken from the telegram, no commentary or anything, this was “the news”. It was a note on that the Defense Ministry of the United States of America are …

Holy Modal Rounders’s naming, and Jeff Minter in repose

In the Wikipedia article on the geniuses of Holy Modal Rounders they have something profound on naming, a subject dear to programmers: > As regards the name, Peter Stampfel explained in Perfect Sound Forever: “We kept changing the name. First it was the Total Quintessence Stomach Pumpers. Then the Temporal Worth High Steppers. Then The …

PEAR news: Validate_DK validates Danish numbers

Rejoice! A PEAR class for Danish numbers is now in alpha: Docs For Class Validate_DK are sparse, but you can see the four methods: * carReg * phoneNumber * postalCode * ssn I like this. One person, in this case Jesper Veggerby Hansen, can make a significant contribution to the Open Source world. [An article](http://asay.blogspot.com/2005/09/analyst-nature-and-size-of-open-source.html) …