mynews.xml
03/31/2000
Sooo Busy !

I haven't posted anything here for a while now as I have been busy with work(have to pay those
bills!).
I have just finished a neat little script that stores a complete record set in a session
variable after
doing an SQL query. The neat part is that an XML doc is stored in the session variable
an when paging
through the results (often near 1000!) the script displays 50 results at a time from the
XML doc in the
session variable instead of doing another query against the database. It takes a BIG load
off of the
database server.

03/25/2000
NewsBoy Class

Converted Newsboy to a PHP class to allow better abstraction (as far as PHP allows.)

Guess that means this is version 0.02 ?!
Newsboy will have a section of it's own soon on how to use and customize the class.

03/24/2000
NewsBoy is up!

I have just finished NewsBoy v0.01 !!!
It looks quite promising. You may ask, ""What the heck is it?!".

Well it's a simple news system for web-sites, written in PHP, that makes use of XML
for
the news data format allowing easy updating and portability between platforms.
It uses the built in expat parser for Apache.
This is just the very first version and there will be loads of improvements as the
project progresses.

03/24/2000
Romeo must Die

Saw a really cool movie today at Mann called 'Romeo must Die'
Nice fight scenes for a typical kung-fu movie with some 'Matrix' style effects.

One particular cool effect was the 'X-Ray Vision' effect that occured in various
fight scenes.
The hero, played by Jet Li, strikes a bad guy and you can see the bone in his arm
crack, in X-RAY vision.
There were some funny scenes too when Jet has to play American football with the
bad guys.
The official website for the movie is <A HREF='http://www.romeo-must-die.com'
> here </A>

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