Axodys

I’ve been playing with PHP and the BBEdit 6.0 demo today. PHP has cool built in XML support and I’ve been exploring that a bit. I think I’m finally going to overhaul my site here and use Blogger to spit out straight xml that I’ll parse and manipulate at this end. That should be pretty fun to set up.

This week is really going by fast. That seems kind of strange since it was actually last week that was a mere four days long thanks to Gonzaga’s Labor Day make up holiday. I’m not complaining though. Just observing…

I’ve continued to scan the scan the web for news of easy PHP, MySQL, and Python installation on MacOS X PB, but it looks like we’re not quite there yet. That’s okay, it’s not like I don’t have a bunch of other projects to work on in the meantime. Better get as much done as I can now because basketball season is just over a month away.

That reminds me I should download the Flash 5 demo at some point. What does that have to with basketball you ask? Well, oddly enough when I woke up Saturday morning it occurred to me that Flash could be an excellent way to do animated play diagrams. Then earlier this week I saw exactly that idea applied to a football play over at CNN/SI. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to track it down again when I went back just now. I’ll have to keep my eyes peeled when it gets closer to gameday this week.

MacWEEK: Inside Mac OS X: The directories

Excellent! This page has the apache module for PHP3 in MacOS X. It doesn’t yet offer MySQL support, but it’s progress…

Sounds like pthreads are an issue for MySQL. This page offers some more insight as well.

Hmm…realized there’s a little faculty web page at work that I need to update before I even think about working on anything else of my own tonight seeing as my boss will most likely ask me about it tomorrow.

Watched some Olympic diving with Mary and her mom tonight. It was awesome to see Laura Wilkinson come out of nowhere and win the gold medal (even if it was 12 hours after the fact).

I stayed up pretty late last night fiddling around with compiling apache and php under MacOS X. Unfortunately I was never completely successful. Still, it was good to get some practice with the whole ./configure, make, make install routine that just hasn’t been possible until now. MacAddict and MacNN have a pretty good variety of useful information, but I haven’t come across a whole lot of info on compiling and installing things like php, python, apache, zope, etc. on MacOS X.

Uh oh. BEHIND THE CURTAIN: a day in the life of webloggers is now up and running. I’d better get my act together and get my little contribution up as well.

MacOS X is cool! I installed it without a whole lot of difficulty this evening. Getting it to connect to the Internet was of course a different story, but I managed eventually. My main complaint is the default anti-aliasing. It may look okay on a CRT, but it’s annoying when viewed via LCD.

Time to install some compilers.

One of my big projects here at work over the next week or two involves setting up 25 new Indigo iMacs in our computer labs (boy, do they look nice). I’ve had to handle multiple installations in the past as well, but this time around I’m tackling the problem in a much more efficient manner thanks to a couple freely available utilities from Apple and a CDROM burner.

I wonder if MacOS X will arrive today or tomorrow?

I haven’t been watching the Olympics at all this year. I think most of that has to do with NBC’s pathetic coverage. All the manufactured drama and emphasis on human interest stories over actual athletic events is completely underwhelming. It’ll be interesting to see how their ratings go this year. I hope they’re down, so we can get back to real coverage in the future.

The US men’s basketball team took on China last night and despite falling behind 20-16 at the start of the game ended up winning 119-72. Of course if the Chinese ever figure out that sometimes less is more when it comes to practicing, it could be a little closer in the future.

Back from Nurse Betty. Still taking pictures. I actually took my camera to the theater and grabbed some pictures from Riverpark Square. I always feel self conscience when I take pictures in a public setting. Something about having a camera always seems to draw people’s attention to you.