After lunch, I headed off to see a slightly-off-topic presentation on XML and Internationalization by Yahoo!’s own Sander van Zoest. van Zoest began discussing Unicode overall, covered the UTF variants such as UTF-8, and BOM (Byte Order Marks). Moving into XML itself, he gave an overview of the intended use of the xml:lang tag and […]
I went to the talk on Apache 2.0 Filters by Greg Ames. I already knew a little bit about the Apache 2.0 Filtered I/O model from a session at the O’Reilly Open Source conference, but since I’m going to sit down and write one Real Soon Now, I oughta learn a little more about ’em. […]
Tim O’Reilly gave this morning’s keynote address. (Actually, what’s bizarre is that he’s actually giving the keynote address right now and I’m blogging via an 802.11b WLAN.) O’Reilly spoke about early adopters being a good predictor for technology trends. He compared the models of Napster and MP3.com (distributed vs. client-server models) and how it often […]
I’m off to Vegas tonight for the ApacheCon conference. I’m looking forward to learning about what people are doing with Apache 2.0. I’ve got this idea for a cool Apache 2.0 filter which I’m planning to work on in January. Basically, I’d like to be able to hilight search terms on a web page. You […]
Here’s a neat little trick. If you want to serve out PHP scripts without showing the .php extension, you can add something like this to your httpd.conf file: DefaultType application/x-httpd-php DirectoryIndex index index.html Those directives will tell Apache that if there is no extension on a file, it should run the file through the PHP […]