Welcome to Domain51.com, online home to Travis Swicegood for more than 8 years. This site now serves as a central hub to all things Travis, aggregating his latest releases, blog posts, tagged items, comments, with a few extra goodies thrown in from time to time.

Latest releases...

Domain51_MicroBench 0.2 (devel)
Released on February 23, 2008

The following changes:

  • allows benchmark sources without an explicit setup section
  • outputs results when only 1 loop is performed

Domain51_MicroBench 0.1 (devel)
Released on January 3, 2008

This is the initial devel release of this package

Phing_d51SSHTask 0.0.2 (alpha)
Released on December 6, 2007

This is a general clean up of code and fixes an issue which might cause segfaults on some installations. Changes in this release:

  • Fixes issue with segfaults when attempting to read the output from an execution
  • Fixes issue with commands that didn't have a newline at the end
  • Adds init() method to check for ssh2 extension
  • Attempts to load proper ssh2 extension if not already available.
  • All log() calls now how proper Project::MSG_* constant attached allowing output level to be controlled properly
  • Adds an example build.xml to show how to use the ssh task

Phing_d51SSHTask 0.0.1 (alpha)
Released on December 5, 2007

This is the initial alpha release of this package

Phing_d51PearPkg2Task 0.6.2.1 (alpha)
Released on October 19, 2007

Fix issue introduced by previous "fix"

Latest from my blog...

Breaking News: Kansas Governor Supports Profanity, Nudity, and Violence on State Website!
Posted on June 25, 2009

Shocking, I know, but it's true. Earlier today, Kansas Governor Mark Parkinson participated in an online chat in which he admitted it. I asked why he did not have any blog-like features on his self-styled blog (which Artur Bagyants properly deemed an e-newsletter) such as commenting. His full response can be read in the chat transcript, but here's the interesting part:

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Fuck off, humanity!
Posted on June 19, 2009

Author's note: This is for me, and me alone. Don't like it? Don't agree? Replace "humanity" in the title with your name.

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My goals for the PHP standards group
Posted on June 2, 2009

A few weeks ago at php|tek, I corralled developers from all of the major PHP frameworks into one of the conferences rooms. The idea was simple: in the PEAR Group we've been discussing our new PEAR2 Coding Standard and have come to some conclusions on how PHP 5.3 code should be handled moving forward. A standard is only a standard if people use it, though, and PEAR is not entirely representative of the community at large.

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Magic is to Python as Java is to PHP
Posted on May 13, 2009

Wow. I touched a live wire today in IRC without meaning to. I lamented over the inconsistency that Django has between it's generic views. It has to do with what the Python community calls magic and goes something like this.

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Race Report: God's Country Duathalon
Posted on April 26, 2009

Wow. It's been a long time since I've written one of these. Yesterday I participated in my first race in near (if not over) two years! Time flies, etc.

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