I've really never gotten why people use something like Smarty. What's the difference between including my custom functions/classes in a file and referencing them with PHP and using Smarty and doing the same?
I end up with effectively the same thing in either case with different syntax:
Name: {$name}
or Name:
And it just gets worse if one has to manage the output visually, such as alternating table row colors or something. How is this separating code from content?
The problem I have with Perl, though I love the language because it is FUN, is that routing everything back through one or more monster scripts that are the program, especially when most of the code is spotting out XHTML and CSS *anyway* is a such a pita. Not to mention finding a host thast will deal with mod_perl -- why is mod_perl so hard for hosts and mod_php so easy?
I've owned a few different Palm III series, including my current Palm IIIc which I have been abusing for a few years now (I pound my palm every day-- wait, that sounds bad. I drop it, stuff it in my back pocket, leave it in my car to freeze in winter and boil in summer, and overclock it to the max) and never had a significant problem with any of them.
But it seems that everyone I know has to return their M series at least once, and sometimes more, to finally get one whose workmanship is up to snuff. If it weren't for how QUICKLY they degrade, I would suspect that it was done on purpose to keep the market demand high.
Al Pacino sleepwalks through this movie. Which is the point, of course, but he appears pretty much the same as he has in his last half-dozen movies. Is he stalking a killer in the mist or his star receiver on the sidelines? You wouldn't know except for the scenery.
And the horribly over-dramatized conceit of the constant light causing such problems (I live in Interior Alaska and it is light all the time now-- it doesn't cause us, or the constant flow of tourists, any major problems) and the supposed Alaskans talking about it driving people crazy... well, there are a lot of things that drive people crazy here, but light is not one of them. Tourists? Sure. Mosquitos? You bet. Women? If there were any (we say "Alaska: where men are men and the women are too"). But the light?
Gorgeous scenery, though, even if most of it is actually Canada. Robin Williams finally underplays a part and it works. Hillary Swank was fine except that she looks more and more like Matt Damon every day. That has to be the most disconcerting element of this movie!
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I've really never gotten why people use something like Smarty. What's the difference between including my custom functions/classes in a file and referencing them with PHP and using Smarty and doing the same?
I end up with effectively the same thing in either case with different syntax:
Name: {$name}
or
Name:
And it just gets worse if one has to manage the output visually, such as alternating table row colors or something. How is this separating code from content?
The problem I have with Perl, though I love the language because it is FUN, is that routing everything back through one or more monster scripts that are the program, especially when most of the code is spotting out XHTML and CSS *anyway* is a such a pita. Not to mention finding a host thast will deal with mod_perl -- why is mod_perl so hard for hosts and mod_php so easy?
I'm only on hour 47 of the first two...
I've owned a few different Palm III series, including my current Palm IIIc which I have been abusing for a few years now (I pound my palm every day-- wait, that sounds bad. I drop it, stuff it in my back pocket, leave it in my car to freeze in winter and boil in summer, and overclock it to the max) and never had a significant problem with any of them.
But it seems that everyone I know has to return their M series at least once, and sometimes more, to finally get one whose workmanship is up to snuff. If it weren't for how QUICKLY they degrade, I would suspect that it was done on purpose to keep the market demand high.
Al Pacino sleepwalks through this movie. Which is the point, of course, but he appears pretty much the same as he has in his last half-dozen movies. Is he stalking a killer in the mist or his star receiver on the sidelines? You wouldn't know except for the scenery.
And the horribly over-dramatized conceit of the constant light causing such problems (I live in Interior Alaska and it is light all the time now-- it doesn't cause us, or the constant flow of tourists, any major problems) and the supposed Alaskans talking about it driving people crazy... well, there are a lot of things that drive people crazy here, but light is not one of them. Tourists? Sure. Mosquitos? You bet. Women? If there were any (we say "Alaska: where men are men and the women are too"). But the light?
Gorgeous scenery, though, even if most of it is actually Canada. Robin Williams finally underplays a part and it works. Hillary Swank was fine except that she looks more and more like Matt Damon every day. That has to be the most disconcerting element of this movie!
the first Seven of Nine: