PS3 Update
I still don’t have a Playstation 3 in my house. This time it’s not a programming issue. It’s just good ole life that’s causing the delay. Weddings, kids going back to school and a short vacation has kept the PS3 out of reach. Fall is here now and I’ve decided I’m ready to try again. I’m thinking of putting Grails up to the challenge before I totally just beg off with a basic Apache Struts 2 CRUD app. I’ll keep ya bastids posted.
Atlanta Councilman Wants to Ban Saggy Pants, Exposed Bra Straps
Because there are not enough crimes to enforce in the Metro area. Now a councilman wants to make baggy and sagging pants illegal. Friends of mine say we should organize/join a potest against this because they thing it’s a racial thing. That may very well be but in my opnion, there are are lot more important racial justice issues happening in the ATL. With all the Vick dog fighting media coverage I’ve gotten worried that the Genarlow Wilson case is losing the attention it deserves. Besides, banning bra straps and thongs? That part will never fly. That cuts waaay too close to Atlanta’s voluminous silicon implant culture. The debate rages on.
Yes, the Vick plea deal is in, Atlanta traffic still sucks
I echo the sentiments of this post from the metroblogges completely, let us move on
Vick plea deal likely
From the Atlanta Journal Constitution (say that 3 times fast)
“Richmond, Va. — Facing the possibility of a new indictment, which includes racketeering charges, Falcons quarterback Michael Vick will most likely join his three co-defendants and agree this week to a plea deal with prosecutors in his federal dogfighting case, according to two people with knowledge of the case. Vick has not made a final decision, according to the two people with the knowledge of the case, because he wants to hear from the NFL what a guilty plea would do to his football career.”
How my addiction to web frameworks lost me a Playstation 3
I have a buddy that is a SEO nut. He has a gizillion domain names that basically pay for his Jigaratti lifestyle. Unfortunately, though most of his sites run on php, he refuses to learn the language, and often IMs me for help when he gets stuck on something LAMP (Linux Apache Mysql PHP) related. Being that it’s not my real mortgage paying job, his stuff usually takes a back seat to real work. 2 weeks ago, he was desperate, he needed 3 CRUD (create retrieve update delete) apps for 3 already existing databases. He did not care what language I used, as long as it worked. No design work was needed, no fancy css, no background colors, just CRUD forms. In exchange for building the apps , I would receive a brand new PS3. A PS3 is not in the “family” budget right now, so I was excited. I set aside that coming weekend to work on the project. That week, the bastard called me from the store to tell me that he was in Walmart picking up my PS3 and did I need an extra controller? We joked about being able to play it before the weekend was over. All I had to do now was decide what platform I was going to build this on. Had this been 1999 , this would have been a no brainer, LAMP : a few html forms , a connection to Mysql (maybe even put that stuff in a fancy dancy include file) and I would have been golden. As far as the PHP platform has come, you can still do sh** like that today , throw up apps in less than a day. This is why you never want to make PHP your 9-5 job. More on that another time. I decided it would be so much cooler if I used this as an excuse to try out a new framework, Jboss Seam. Read more
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