CloudedVision

Well, some of you might have read this, but ProofHQ held a competition through DesignM.ag. The challenge was to finish this sentence: "Good design is...." Well, I submitted an entry, and it won! So now I get $500 towards any ProofHQ plan! I never have won any of these things before... ProofHQ seems pretty useful. Too bad I probably only need the free plan.

I'm developing a PHP CMS. Although I still have to deal with IE6 for the front-end, but for the backend admin (actually, its integrated into the frontend) tool I've dropped all support for IE6, and only partial support for any non-CSS3 browser. (Still works fine, but doesn't look as good) So I have free reign to use CSS3.

All I have to say is CSS3 is amazing. I';m using RGBA for some nice opaque backgrounds, and rounded corners too, all without a single image. And I'm drooling ...

I'm coding up a new PHP framework (called Tamarin) at the moment. I just added two lines of code that set PHP's error reporting to E_ALL when in development mode. Within 30 seconds I had located and correct 3 bugs I didn't even knew existed. Here's how you can turn on E_ALL in your scripts:

PHP Code:

error_reporting(E_ALL); 


or

PHP Code:

ini_set('error_reporting',E_ALL); 


U.S. National Debt Clock

$10 trillion dollars in debt.... I've figured this much about politics: you can lower taxes, but you sure as hell can't raise them. (Of course, now we're in a financial crisis, so we won't start paying it off anytime soon)