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I know this isn’t tech…but I like it: http://postsecret.blogspot.com/

Sounds like the folks at wordpress.org has been getting into some risky business. I’m all for Matt making some money…wordpress is great…I just wish there was a less shady way to do it.

UPDATE: Matt responds. Bottom line: you live and learn.

Just discovered BookPool.com. Good timing too…they’re having an ‘open source’ sale: 43% off most open source titles. I got Pro-Spring, Expert One-on-One J2EE without EJB, and The Beauty of CSS Design…all for 74. I’m happy.

Keith announced that Spring Web Flow PR1 is out. Read about it here. I’m going camping this weekend (weather should be awesome), so I won’t be able to give it a real look until next week. Maybe I’ll skip the gym :).

I just installed and played around with phpWebSite. I may be using it for the toastmasters website I’m managing. I like it quite a bit so far…check it out: http://phpwebsite.appstate.edu. Actually…its a lot like shadow :).

Back in college, I worked on a project called Shadow netWorkspace. I constantly hear myself saying “Oh, we did that in shadow”. It was seriously before its time. It had portal aspects, widgets (actually each ‘portlet’ could be used as a widget…from other code), even os-like aspects. I keep saying I’ll re-write it in java…and I will…or something like it. Someday.

I just notice ‘Hello’ listed under googles ‘more’ link. Looks like I’m a bit slow as its been there since at least October (maybe not listed on its own though). Anyway it sounds neat. Imagine sending an instant message to your blog with photos attached…then the messenger resizes and compresses the photos automagically for you and then creates a post on your blog. My wife would love it…now if we could only get something like this for wordpress. Read more here.

Waiting for my server to re-start. Seriously takes about 5 minutes to build, deploy, restart. The server I’m on does not support hot-deploy (nor does our setup for that matter). So, I guess I’ll learn to do bigger chunks at a time. Oh, and don’t ever mess up…too time consuming.

My laptop died. It’s about time, I guess…I’ve had it for like 4 years.

I think I’m going to write a web framework for php. I’ve been needing to some php stuff here and there for the last few years…I really just kind of hack something together until it works. I didn’t really have the time to learn how to do things ‘right’ in php. So I got to looking and saw their oo capabilities and it got me thinking about applying what I know about the java side of things to php. Should be fun.