2005 October

Dave Winer Interview

Eddie A. Tejeda published this entry on Monday 31 October, 2005 at 10:49 am. It's been filed in the Ideas + Technology category. {Share Your Thoughts}

Highlights and comments from the I, Cringely interview with Dave Winer.

SoapServer : HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA SOAP Errors resolved

Eddie A. Tejeda published this entry on Thursday 27 October, 2005 at 4:25 pm. It's been filed in the Ideas category. {3 Comments}

I was having trouble instansiating a soap service using PHP5’s SoapServer class. I kept getting the following fault:

SOAP-ENV:Server Bad Request. Can’t find HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA

After a bit of browsing around I found a solution at SitePoint For some reason my installation (From Entropy PHP) of PHP5’s SoapServer does not automatically pick up the global [...]

Federal Budget Reminder

Eddie A. Tejeda published this entry on Tuesday 18 October, 2005 at 9:28 pm. It's been filed in the Ideas category. {Share Your Thoughts}

Budget of the United States Government: Browse Fiscal Year 2006
Department of Defense - $419.3b
Department of Education - $56.0b

PHP5RC3 Mac OS X Tiger

Eddie A. Tejeda published this entry on Tuesday 18 October, 2005 at 9:06 pm. It's been filed in the Technology category. {Share Your Thoughts}

A change made the http://www.w3.org/2001/xml.xsd schema, by the W3 Group, broke SOAP in PHP5. The bug created the exception
> (”SOAP-ERROR: Parsing Schema: union has both ‘memberTypes’ attribute and subtypes”)
You would get this exception when your schema is parsed by PHP. In order to encounter this bug you had to have a [...]

How I Got to W

Eddie A. Tejeda published this entry on Saturday 15 October, 2005 at 12:25 pm. It's been filed in the Ideas category. {Share Your Thoughts}

I learned about the letter W in this order.
It’s my daily routine to check out the funnies on pop-politics. I get my dose at crooksandliars.com, a great website if you don’t want to watch television, but don’t mind highlights and watching incriminating videos. Today was no different and I saw an interesting post.
1. http://www.crooksandliars.com/2005/10/13.html#a5351
That [...]

ScienceNow Podcast Wonders About Big and Small Aliens

Eddie A. Tejeda published this entry on Saturday 15 October, 2005 at 10:51 am. It's been filed in the Ideas + Science category. {Share Your Thoughts}

Given that the chances for life somewhere else at some time is relatively high, how bizarre can these creatures get? How big can they be?

Microsoft ‘must support OpenDocument’: I do not buy it

Eddie A. Tejeda published this entry on Friday 07 October, 2005 at 9:47 pm. It's been filed in the Technology category. {Share Your Thoughts}

Like any logical person, I am a supporter of open standards but Microsoft does not “need” to support OpenDocument anytime soon, as suggested by a ZDNet Article. It’s wishful thinking by the OpenOffice.org group and other implementers of the OpenDocument format to think that because the government of Massachusetts has officially changed it’s internal working [...]