Design vs. Develop

Today, someone emailed me an Amber Alert for “Ashley Flores.” I googled that name and got a Snopes page as the top hit. When you hit the Forward button, the email address the sender along with other recipient’s email addresses are typically added to the message body. Once you’re four or five levels on down the chain, all sorts of people you don’t know now have your email address. All because of a prank. Be careful before you forward emails and don’t forward something that’s already been down two or three levels.

In case you didn’t already hear from elsewhere, a copy of the Daily Message component designed for Joomla 1.5 is now ready for your perusal. I can’t believe it’s already been three years since I released the original; the response has been nothing short of amazing! I decided not to implement a full model-view-controller design in the tutorial to keep things simple. It just has a controller for now; I might add a second copy with views and models later. Why write this tutorial? When I took AP Computer Science, the extremely nerdily titled “C++ for You++” took the approach of starting you with a complete program processing input and output. The assignment was to just try to figure out what it did and to get a feel for the language. I found this approach to be very helpful, so I’ve tried to carry a bit of that into my tutorials.

Steve Wozniak was recently interviewed about a housebuilding project he’s planning and how he intends to build it to be energy efficient. However, some of the readers point out that his building materials will only work in coastal California.

Ok, I didn’t get a rush of traffic to my site yet, but I did get a review of Learning Joomla! Extension Development.

Planetizen picks up on this Post article about the struggle of DC’s Chinatown, er, block. If you don’t dig into the post article and just read the Planetizen summary, you might think that Chinatown DC is in the middle of a sagging, decrepit part of the district. If you actually visit it, you’ll find yourself one block away from one of the busiest and most vibrant streets in the district, albeit having little to do with Chinese culture. It is disappointing that few Chinese businesses are left. Realistically though, most of those businesses left long before the more recent real estate bubble started pushing the rest out.

Evidently France really liked Ratatouille, based mainly on culinary details; much in the same way LOtR fans pick at the discrepancies between the books and the movies.