Found out about the YUI PHP Loader the other day. Haven’t used it yet, but looks like something I should check out.
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JavaScript base64_encode
This is where all the trouble began. Back on July 19th this year I commented on the base64_encode function over at phpjs.org letting them know about a bug in their function whereby they were encoding as UTF-8 (whatever that means) prior to doing the Base64 encoding, which is a bug. Anyway, I had to patch the code myself for its use in pccipher and after several months no-one at phpjs has fixed up the implementation. So, that makes me mad, and when I’m mad, I fork!
I forked ProgSoc into ProgClub, and now I’m forking phpjs.org into jsphp.co. Both times it was because there was something going on that gave me the shits and I felt as if I could do a better job. So far I’m really pleased with my results. One great thing about forking is that it encourages the other party to lift their game. I wouldn’t be surprised to see phpjs.org improve its features after they see what I’ve done with jsphp.co.
Update: I ended up fixing that base64_encode function. My notes are in the comments.
CodeIgniter forms
I’ve been learning about how to create forms using CodeIgniter and its Form Helper subsystem.
Doctrine association mappings
Finally starting to get my head around Doctrine‘s Association Mappings. In the jsphp.co project I’m using one-to-one, one-to-may, many-to-one, and many-to-many relationships now, so I’ve got an example of everything.
CSS layouts
I cheated with the design of the jsphp.co web-site and used a layout from this article CSS layouts. I use a slightly customised version of the one column fixed width layout and the two column fixed width layout.
jsphp.co developments
I’m working on my jsphp.co web-site. I haven’t deployed my latest changes yet, so there’s nothing there on the main web-site just now, except if you head over to checkout the development area which has all my latest changes. Basically over the last couple of days I’ve added support for:
- Home page
- Category listing
- Function listing
- View function, tests and benchmark with linkable line numbers
- Edit function, tests and benchmark with summary
- Test the code using QUnit
- Benchmark code and compare versions
- List revisions and view, edit or change the release status
- List developers including local and upstream contributors
- Comments on functions or tests (incomplete)
- Link to features, such as code downloads or the phpjs.org implementation
- Administer the function
- Contributor listing
- Lists local contributors
- Lists upstream contributors
- Licensing info
- Downloads
- Links to other web-sites
- Contact information
- System administration
- Manage categories
- Manage functions
- Manage users
- Manage upstream developers
- View errors
There’s still a little bit to do. Basically I need to review the entire code base for HTML injection and XSS vulnerabilities, I need to fix up the commenting subsystem to allow for editing and creation of comments, I need to protect from some changes (e.g. only administrators can release a function version), many of the forms need better/reviewed workflow for errors and omissions, there needs to be a facility for adding and removing upstream developers, and that’s about it. Once I’ve got those planned changes done I’ll release the latest version of the site and begin the process of importing the phpjs.org code base.
Words on Noam Chomsky’s computer
Today I watched reddit.com Interviews Noam Chomsky and in the video you can see a laptop in the background that pops up various words. I’m not sure why these words are there, it looks like some sort of screensaver. Anyway, I wrote down all the words that I could see properly and then wrote a program to put them in the following table:
Intelligence
The more I learn about Artificial Intelligence the more I worry about actual human intelligence.
It seems like objective reality is constrained in significant ways, and I’m not sure we’ll ever be able to know or speak the whole truth.
ML class
I’ve started the ML class.
My notes are on my sixsigma wiki.
Bash aliases
I was reading my default .bashrc file, and found the following:
# Alias definitions.
# You may want to put all your additions into a separate file like
# ~/.bash_aliases, instead of adding them here directly.
# See /usr/share/doc/bash-doc/examples in the bash-doc package.
if [ -f ~/.bash_aliases ]; then
. ~/.bash_aliases
fi
This suggested that I wanted a .bash_aliases file for my aliases, so I set one up:
jj5@sixsigma:~$ cat .bash_aliases alias home='cd ~' alias jj5='cd /var/www/www.jj5.net/' alias profile='cd /var/www/www.jj5.net/profile/' alias chomsky='vim /var/www/www.jj5.net/profile/chomsky/index.html' alias henney='vim /var/www/www.jj5.net/profile/henney/index.html' alias lakoff='vim /var/www/www.jj5.net/profile/lakoff/index.html' alias norvig='vim /var/www/www.jj5.net/profile/norvig/index.html'
This is my basic “CMS” system for http://www.jj5.net/profile/.