I can’t believe I did not post for a whole week. But I got tied up in some personal stuff, minor computer woes, and some new project I hacked over the weekend, and that pretty much killed all my blogging time. After all …
You blog or you code. Incidentally, this just showed up in my feed list that I didn’t check for nearly a week.
OpenID rocks. I tried OpenID for the first time, and I love it. I decided I’m going to try it and add OpenID authentication, only if I can run my own server … no point in someone else owning my ID. I ended up struggling with mod_rewrite rules — I want a URL that I can easily remember — and accidentally broke the blog. Took a break and came back to address a configuration problem. Took another break, and went back to fix a mod_php problem.
That one took a lot of source digging, but apparently the PHP OpenID server requires mod_php. So it works nicely on my development machine. TextDrive, my hosting providing, uses FCGI. So I had to fix get_apache_headers() in the source. A five minute fix, but it took a lot of digging to get there.
It could be easier. It should be easier. We deserve it.
Did I just say that? I mostly agree with Nick Carr’s response to Lawrence Lessig’s mishype. There, I said it.
Shame yourself into writing more test cases. In one word: cool.
And always keep in mind. Well designed URLs are beautiful.
Jason
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