Monthly Archive for November, 2005

Aggregate multiple feeds, order by date, with PHP

Published
by
oneafrikan
on November 30, 2005
in GTD and Productivity
. 9 Comments

Has anyone had any experience / done any experimenting aggregatng mutiple feeds and ordering them by date, using php and without using a database?

I’m playing with MagpieRSS atm, and it’s an awesome tool that does a really good job, and was wondering whether anyone else has done anything similiar with it?
I’ve also started playing with Feeds on Feeds, which is also pretty cool, but it uses a DB so not ideal…

Any thoughts, directions or help would be much apprecited ;-)

Managing overwhelm Haiku attempt

Published
by
oneafrikan
on November 29, 2005
in GTD and Productivity
. 5 Comments

My Inbox is overflowing
with too much to reply
so it must wait

The Windows Idiot Tax

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by
oneafrikan
on November 23, 2005
in Uncategorized
. 4 Comments

_ Open Resource | InfoWorld | The Windows Idiot Tax | November 22, 2005 10:14 PM | By Dave Rosenberg

The Windows Idiot Tax: For those who still believe that running Windows instead of Linux is cheaper or more cost effective let me give you a real world scenario I discovered today.

Windows:
Server hardware 2 x $1250 = $2500
Windows Licenses 2 x $700 =$1400
User Cals 3 x $30 = $90
SQL Server 2000 Standard 1-cpu $1850
Windows TOTAL= $4840

Linux:
Server hardware 2 x $1250 = $2500
RedHat download = free
MySQL = free (non commercial use)
Linux TOTAL=$2500

My real world example was when I first started out – it’s cheaper to get hold of tools to develop on, and it’s cheaper to set up the infrastructure… and in my experience to date, there seems to be this overwhelming mentality that anything except MSFT stuff is crap, unstable, unscalable and not worth lookng at.

I say ignorance is bliss…

Update:
I’ve just emailed a client regards a new db server and costs thereof, and their response was “Surely it’s only the machine we have to buy?”…. Nope, you gotta buy the machine first, then Windows license, then db license, and then you gotta factor in scaling to that as well.

The problem, as I see it, is that most people don’t really absolutely _NEED_ MS SQL server. In fact, they wouldn’t necessarily know or care about the difference if you asked them, as long as it worked. All they _NEED_ is a relational database… and there are other options out there to achieve the same thing… ;-)