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I can't believe I didn't notice PHP has Anonymous Functions and Closures!

Once they have functions as first class objects, then there is a chance that it will stop sucking!

I have been (re)reading "Sex, Drugs, Einstein and Elves" by Clifford Pickover. Awesome book. In one of the chapters is a list of various authors' favorite words, so I thought I would come up with my own.

Presenting: the 11 favorite words of Jonnay

• Vaudeville
• Pitching woo
• Sacrosanct
• Deluge
• Salsa
• Confabulation
• Vernacular
• Milieu
• Remiss
• Recalcitrant
• Resplendent

Having successfully deploying a reasonably high traffic Drupal website, I can tell you that the boost module is like mana from heaven.

The only issue that I have found with the boost module is when you have blocks that update data in real time, or are interactive, a good example being the poll module. This can be over-come by writing a custom module that pulls in the content via AJAX. This isn't particularly difficult to do. I bet that it could be fairly easily generalized, and if I had mounds of spare time, I would do exactly that.

If you need to import a drupal view programmatically, it is fairly simple:

	include_once(drupal_get_path('module', 'views') .'/views.module');
	include_once(drupal_get_path('module', 'views') .'/includes/view.inc');
	include_once(drupal_get_path('module', 'views') .'/includes/cache.inc') ;
	include_once(drupal_get_path('module', 'views') .'/includes/convert.inc'); 

        /* ... insert import code here */

	views1_import($view);

	$view->save();

I had a chance to really play with PHPs native XML support.

It's interesting, but a little leaky in its abstraction. I had to futz around with the options to make it recognize CDATA sections, which involved passing options to libxml.

$xml = simplexml_load_file($file, 'SimpleXMLElement', LIBXML_NOCDATA);

Additionally, trying to serialize and unserialize SimpleXML objects is a dirty, hacky job. I didn't even bother trying to tackle that (though others have). In Short, native support for xml, isn't quite native inside of PHP.

I just found this bit of weirdness, and I am not necessarily the only one either.

Whenever using Tramp to open a file with the /sudo::/ syntax, it would hang for a long time. Sometimes not even being responsive to Ctrl-G. Looking at the process tree, I noticed that there was a stuck ping process.

This seemed to be because of the ecb-ping-options variable. It was set to

("HOST")

If that is switched to

("-c 2" "HOST")

instead, then everything should work.

Here is the tattoo I got on Thursday.

It itches right now, and is peeling. It took about an hour to do, I designed it, and it was expertly inked by Vince at Tiki Town [facebook fan page] [map]