Bryan Strawser

DBForm. Recently dbform has been appearing in my referer logs and I just had to have a look. Apparently it’s written by Tony Blair (yes really) – now you know what he does when he’s not solving Britain’s problems!

If you have been a Web Database Developer for even a short time you will realise that most of your work is creating web forms and most of those forms do basically one action: updating records in a single database table.

Having to completely rewrite code to do basically the same task for every form is not only annoying it’s a waste of time. You can copy and paste but in the long run it takes almost as much time to make sure that you removed all of the data from the previous form and adapted it to the new table. So what is the answer?

Well after several years as a Web Database Developer I knew what the answer was, create a Class to build the form based on a database table, I just never got around to doing it. Until now that is.

“tri” If you are looking for something more powerful, why not try phpLens (commercial product).

“zeldman.hc” [PHP Everywhere]

Maurice Gibb.

Sad news today, Bee Gee brother Maurice Gibb died early this morning. I’ve met all three brothers several times and am a fan. I put these guys right up there with the Kinks, Stones, Beatles. Of course you have to look a bit further than Night Fever to see the body of work.

Robin Gibb was in Europe promoting his solo CD and was planned to be on our radio show Feb. 21st. Although understandable if he doesn’t, I sure hope he still wants to come.

[Adam Curry: Adam Curry’s Weblog]

Adam Medros: “I’m a grad student at Harvard Business School and I think the only blogger on campus.” [Scripting News]

Where’s my chalk?.

This is so cool. We pull up to a Starbucks in San Luis Obispo to grab some caff and stretch our legs, and I pull out the laptop to see what’s up. Sure enough, I’m on the Net, through a hot spot called linksys. No T-Mobile here, but who cares? We’re home, free.

Also behind schedule, but that’s cool.

[The Doc Searls Weblog]

I am r00t, hear me roar!

The Totalitarian System Admin. I used to travel a lot: back in time when I was younger and still in high school, somehow I managed to find myself on a plane from one end of the country to another on a bi-monthly basis. Flying can be tremendously boring when you’re on your own with little to do in seats that crush your knees up to your chin; however, flying is damn interesting when you’re sitting next to an intelligent someone who wants to talk. I think part of the reason for that is that there’s no escape when the plane’s full. You’re stuck there and forced to listen whether you want to or not. On one such flight I was seated next to a woman who looked like she’d come straight from the legislature. She struck up a conversation with me that continues to nag at me; it still finds purchase in the ol’ noggin as one of those unresolved somethings that comes back to haunt you when you have a little solitude to think. [kuro5hin.org]

saladwithsteve:. “One goofy-lookin’ motherfucker, that’s what they’ll say about me after I’m famous. OGLMF.” [evhead]

This is awesome.  It means Dave is local to me.  Hmm.. New blog hang outs?

It’s true, it’s true. I’ve been offered a fellowship at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School, and have, of course, accepted. It’s a very exciting opportunity. Check out this section of yesterday’s DaveNet for an idea of what we’re going to work on. And of course over the coming weeks and months I’ll write more. I’m going to spend a lot of time in Cambridge this year. Totally looking forward. Onward! [Scripting News]