Since LCA when I went to a session with Rasmus Lerdorf (The creator of PHP) and showed some really cool things with php5 objects, I have been busy in my spare time creating the redback gateway for php.
At this stage it only works through the rgw cgi gateway. But it will work with librbo some day as well. This will mean that it will be as deployable as possible, and the only php extension that you require is the socket interface.
Now as I suspected and the method that I implemented the handling of multi values it just works. I is some much easier to use that the asp or jsp gateways.
The method that the properties and methods are exposed to php it looks like a native object. So in asp it would be accessed like so.
Last night on the way home from friends place we were trying to keep Xanda awake. Once we had had given up on the fact that Xander was going to sleep and was basically asleep, Sarah said jokingly
"McDonalds!!"
Xander sprang up wide wake, saying "mcDonalds!" and then basically stayed awake for the rest of the trip home.
Well LCA was over a week ago now. I am still comming down from all the excitement, and fun I had.
In the first couple of days I went to Debian Mini Conf, which was very interesting. They spoke of alot of Debian matters, and some interesting topics such as linda to check debian packages. Also Keith Packard spoke of the amature rocket project that he is involved in. Basically Debian Unstable at Marc 3.
The first day of the main conference I spent in a full day session with Rasmus Lerdorf who is the author of php. A lot of really good insite into php and I works out how I am going to my php redback gateway. From this session I managed to score myself a 1G usb thumb drive. this was pretty cool.
On day 2 the key note was from tridge who is the author of Samba. Also during this I won myself a brand new IBM X40. This was pretty cool. As soon as the session was over I exercised it of it deamons (Windows is gone) and installed ubuntu linux. Sitting beside me during this see how well this network install was going was Mark Shuttleworth who is a debian developer, a visitor to the Internation Space Station, and the main person behind ubuntu linux.
Day 3 was not as interesting but there were some good sessions. I fixed one thing that I didn't like about ubuntu linux, and got rid of Gnome and installed KDE. I find it a little cleans and takes less screen than Gnome.
Day 4, was also interesting in that they sent out for 400 pizzas to be delivered. This was really cool. One of the last seesions was the session on linux suspend2 which was very interesting and will be one job that I will be doing to my NEC laptop as soon as I can. the very last session was the best of session with Bdale Garbee, the CTO for linux at HP, talking about amature radio and how you can actually record all the stations at once and then split off the signals for each station. Pretty cool.
Well it has been a busy couple of weeks and I have been busting to announce the news. I have been appointed the Regional Delegate for Victoria at linux.conf.au which is now only in a couple of weeks.
I would like to thank Sun who are the sponsors of the Regional Delegate Program, and a major sponsor of linux.con.au.
I can't wait to get there, and I will also be taking lots of pictures for the web site.
Well I have been very busy laterly. I have had a client going live with a online order entry, which is working great. I have also managed to find some time to update the web site as well.
I have made a couple of updates such as I have changed all the theme of the site so I can make some really cool backend changes that I have been working on. Now the web site is using a phptemplate theme which is extremely cool, and makes things alot easier to modify. I did however need to use the sucky phptemplate menu system for the primary menu, but with the change to phptemplate I will be able to use the drupal menus to handle the primary menus and also maybe able to get rid of the navtree menu. I will still be using the phplayersmenu to render the tree menu on the side, but instead of having a module to specifically do this, I will be able to call phplayersmenu directly from the theme.
The other major change is that I am no longer using htmlarea for the wysiwyg editor, but instead using Xinha which is much more stable than htmlarea. I am still in the process of getting some functions work such as the upload image and upload document.
last friday Xander had his first day at 3 yrear old kinder. He is still in an orientation period so Sarah and Sam stayed. I think that Sam had just as much fun as Xander. They both did painting and gluing, and both enjoyed it very much.
Well today I had fun triing to work our for one of my clients a better way to transfer the session from one IIS server to another IIS server so that we can use the login permissions from one server on another without having to login again.
I found 1 method that I thought would work, and found that the technique is being used as a method of transfering session from asp to asp.net using the xmlhttprequest object. The problem being microsofts method of fixing security wholes which is by stopping people from doing certain things, and not fixing the underlying problem. (this is much the same as what they have done in SP2, not fix the problems but restrict you from doing things).
The method is quite niffty is to use the xmlhttprequest object is to find the ASPSESSIONIDxxxx=xxx cookie and then set the header for the cookie with the this id, and get an asp page to return everything in the to the page. The problem is that the xmlhttprequest object doesn't allow you to set the ASPSESSIONIDxxx as a cookie.
I am thinking I might add some php to do this with curl, should work, but this is alot of overhead just to transfer a few bits if session data, but I think I might need to.
Please email me if you have a better way of doing this. Thanks.
Well another Christmas has come and gone. As Christmas' go this one was quite good. We gave Xander a push bike, which he is starting to get really quite good.
The biggest problem is that KMart then had a recall on his bike so we had to take it back. We did get a new one, which is just about as good, but for him to learn on it will be just fine.
We gave Sam a little tikes car which is quite good. She gets in it and at the moment she only goes backwards but she will get it. The good this is that we can put in a floor and a handle so we can push her along in it. This has turned out quite good because we have started to walk a little, so Xander can ride his bike, and Sam gets pushed along.
After Christmas my lovely wife got me my best pressy. She got me a Sony Ericsson P910i, which is really cool. I am still learning to use it, and entering all me data into it. But I am getting there.
The most mind blowing thing that happened to me on the Christmas/New Year period was that I made contact with my father after 32 Years. We had a good chat on New Years Eve, and exchanged details. We are plaing to keep in contact and hopefully meet in the next couple of months.
Last Friday Xander had a little accident while Sarah and the kids were visiting Sarah's parents. Xander leaned on a glass table and it smashed cutting his hand.
Sarah then had to take him to the hospital to get it looked at, and most likely some stitches. Well Eden on the Park gave Sarah and Xander a lift to the Afred in nothing else but the best. A Rolls Royce.
Once at the Alfred they basically said Eek a child, cleaned the cut and sent us to the Royal Childrens hospital. While in the car in peak hour traffic, Xander decided that he didn't want the bandage on any more and removed it all. this was then followed by "Ouch", "Oucch".
Once at the hospital Xander then didn't like this waiting a started playing a rough as usual, and wanted to play on the slide. Well Sarah had only done a quick wrap to get it back together so it wasn't really going to stand up too well.
When it was our turn Xander just sat there like a little angel and did exactly what he was told. I still couldn't beleive that we had not even had a single tear, and the most I had heard from hime was ouch. The great thing was that we didn't need to get stitches, but instead they used some skin glue, and some steri strips. much easier. This was then followed by plaster back board up his arm and alot of bandages to imobilise his hand so that it will keep the cut together.
Now Xander has to keep this on for a week. Just about as soon as we got home the imortal words came out of his mouth. "Take it Off!" We managed to survive until Sunday morning when he got it off in one peice. I then had to disassemble the bandages and plaster and put it back on. Only another 6 days to go before we can take it off.
