A taxonomy is an ordered, parent-child (or ‘tree’) structure, used to classify a set of data in groups and subgroups. Any relation to a subgroup implies a relation with the parent group(s). This phenomenon is also called classification, but has recently been popularly called “tagging”. However, though tagging implies taxonomy, not all taxonomy is tagging. That is, after all, what implication means.
Arch Linux: the better hobbyist’s distro
I made the switch from Debian Unstable to Arch Linux for my home desktop a few weeks back. I’m both impressed and pleased.
Python: an introduction for PHP (and other) programmers
Screen size dependent CSS with jQuery
A simple jQuery plugin to let the CSS handle resolution dependent content – jQuery.classBySize(). This little plugin maps the current document’s size to classnames applied to the element the plugin is used on.
The great escape
After a while spent on tweakblogs.net, I have to say, a combination of WordPress, Markdown and GeSHi surely feels better than typing the BB codes that have even earned theirselves the special acronym RML. I’m making the great escape, and am definitely feeling that the combination of tools mentioned above are gonna help keeping things better up to date and more enjoyable to read and follow. I sure hope you will feel the same way.
So there it is, melp.nl finally got some sensible content.
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Linux Devbox: Running multiple PHP versions
Ever since PHP5 came out, there is some need to run multiple PHP versions on your local development box, or at least make it easy to switch from one version to another. Derick Rethans has posted a solution based on your PATH environment variable. I have devised an alternative approach which changes the system wide used PHP version.
ReTwizzle this: #lorizzle
Today and yesterday, analytics of lorizzle.nl peaked because some people with obviously more followers than me, tweeted about it. So, apparently, a 3 year old site with virtually no updates can become a late 2010 twitter hit. Check it out yourself: http://www.lorizzle.nl/
It’s a cool experience being a co-creator of a hit, but let’s await tomorrow and see if it’s actually a one day fly. It probably is 
Setting up a headless torrent daemon in FreeBSD
I have FreeBSD running as a home server for a while now. One of the things I wanted the server to take care of is downloading torrents, so I could shut down my PC whenever I am downloading stuff.
With transmission-daemon (net-p2p/transmission-daemon from ports) this is really simple.
My top 5 dos and don’ts of self-explanatory programming
I have gathered some of the less obvious do’s and don’ts in how to make your code more explanatory to your coworkers. I left out the more obvious like writing doc-comments, using coding standards, etc. Those go without saying. This might be considered “drm’s php tiplist revisited”
Twig, the next generation template engine for PHP
I’ve been using Smarty 2 for about 7 years, and, while Smarty 3 is still in beta, Twig just popped up in the scene. Notable Smarty opposer Fabien Potencier was apparently converted by this template engine, so Twig must either be magic, or excellent, or both.