Code and Whatnot

Sadly, our application, mostly developed before PHP object support, is not object-oriented. There are a few classes that have been added over the last few years. None of the classes satisfy my father’s mantra:
“Describe what your application does in one or two paragraphs; the nouns are your object classes.”
That may be an oversimplified […]

Turning off the screen during calls also prevents my cheek from surreptitiously operating the device for its own nefarious ends.

Apparently, subversion doesn’t dig colons in filenames.

http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/tags/1.2.3/CHANGES
Search that page for the string UTF and you’ll find a LOT of fixes related to UTF-8 support in this release of subversion. I don’t know if this has anything to do with our big merge failure described here, but that failure did roughly coincide with my introduction of some UTF-encoded text files, and […]

I was thinking, perhaps, that maybe non-profits are still paying too much money for the kind of software they need to track donors and donations and whatnot, or maybe just for project management.