I just tossed together a download page for PHPetal. Until I get an anonymous cvs repository set up, the latest build of PHPetal will be available here

No one seems to have found any serious issues with it, so download version 0.5 if

you feel up to it. Highlights: Optionally static-renders blosxom after

posting. Fixed a very annoying bug which caused quotes to be escaped

in posts.

There’s a new version of PHPetal. The major change is that it (optionally) pings weblogs.com after posting. I needed to add a couple new configuration settings in order to implement this. Anyone interested may download it here. Remember, this is still rather experimental, so please let me know ([ if you run into any problems.

I’ve got an update to PHPetal available for download here. Guess we’ll call it version 0.3.

Changes are:

• • Allows posting to nested categories
• • Added setting for default file suffix
• • Changed posting form title to something less annoying

Thanks to Tony Williams for sending me a patch for allowing posts to nested categories.

I’ve been using PHPetal for a few days now with very few problems. It’s time to let folks break it and send me complaints/feedback and such. So I’ve made it available for download. This is a very early version, so any bugs, feature suggestions or comments are more than welcome.

Download: phpetal-0_2.tgz

Update: The latest version will always be found on the downloads page

I’ve almost got my little php blog posting app to a point where it’s usable. Even made a bookmarklet for it. I’m not clever enough to come up with a great name for it, so right now I’m using “PHPetal.” I’ll post a version in the next day or so if anyone is interested.

I’ve always tended to equate, or at least compare, programming and

poetry. Paul Graham does it too, using painters for comparison. It’s a

great read.

“I think hackers just have to resign themselves to having a large

random component in their reputations.”

…

“You need a good sense of design to judge good design. And there is no

correlation, except possibly a negative one, between people’s ability

to recognize good design and their confidence that they can.”

…

“t seems surprising to me that any employer would be reluctant to let

hackers work on open-source projects. At Viaweb, we would have been

reluctant to hire anyone who didn’t. When we interviewed programmers,

the main thing we cared about was what kind of software they wrote in

their spare time. You can’t do anything really well unless you love it,

and if you love to hack you’ll inevitably be working on projects of your

own.”

This is why I use Opera.

One of Opera’s in-browser ads just started talking to me - loudly. That sort of thing has got to stop. Anyone know who I can complain to?

Industrial Light and Magic releases a new image format,

OpenEXR.

Its libraries are free and released under a modified BSD license. Most

of it’s feature list is beyond my almost non-existant grasp of image

formats, but it sure sounds cool.