A place to kernel dump.

Since I have been programming websites for a very long time, nearly all in PHP, I have learned quite a few tricks.  One of which is how to handle data coming from a web client.  In most cases, data does not need to be used directly as given.  An example of that belief can be seen with all user generated content.  For the most part, all that matters is that a person can read what some other person has written, not the mechanisms used to present the user generated content. Read more

After playing with CVS, switching to Subversion (SVN), and then finally going without a repository for a while, I found something easy to use: Git.  Not only are the commands that are used to create and manipulate repositories simple to understand and implement, the fact that it’s decentralized also makes it robust against failure.  Git’s website has the best description in easy to understand wording: Read more