geek stuff - Summary - Entries from January 2005

geek stuff - 3 Topics from January, 2005

Open source or Free software

In his essay describing why people should use the term "open source" instead of "free software", ESR says that the term "free software" is ambiguous. Specifically, the term ...

Advanced PHP Programming impressions

Got myself "Advanced PHP Programming" by Schlossnagle . I started reading it last night, (currently on chapter 3 - "Error Handling"). Excellent book, with clear and good ...

Fighting Comment spam

Wordpress has a nifty feature for fighting comment spam. It allows you to blacklist certain words (like Viagra, casinos). Any comment which has those words (either in the ...