Makes me think, that I should really-really get some old mac-mini and install Haiku on it. At least, I can program some fancy Jukebox out of it

ohloh.net: The World’s Oldest Source Code Repositories

Hey! I was only 1 year old, when they started to use version . . . → Read More: Some things which happened while I wasn’t blogging]]> Haiku OS reported on their Google Summer of Code results

Makes me think, that I should really-really get some old mac-mini and install Haiku on it. At least, I can program some fancy Jukebox out of it

ohloh.net: The World’s Oldest Source Code Repositories

Hey! I was only 1 year old, when they started to use version control!

DSource: LLVM D Compiler

I love D language, I love LLVM — they make such a beautiful couple. Project is not complete, yet, but it already works for simple cases. Author needs any man-power he can get: spread the word, please.

Sam Ruby noticed CouchDB: Ascetic Database Architectures

It brought some more attention to CouchDB, which is really-really deserved. CouchDB is a document-oriented non-relational database written by Damien Katz and Jan Lehnardt in erlang, which has JSON, PHP and Ruby APIs (the number of APIs grows each day).

Opera released 3 public alpha-versions of their 9.5 series

Finally, Opera looks like a native application on mac. It is lightning fast with a new javascript-engine and heavily optimized UI code. I already use 9.5 on daily basis without problems, but your mileage may differ — it is an alpha-version, after all. Get it here

PHP 5.3 will have Late Static Binding

LSB will allow static methods to know about inheritance (to know, on which of the descendant-classes the method was actually called). Which means, that it will be possible to make a good-looking ActiveRecord implementation, after all these years.

I mean:

This list can be continued more and more…

I perfectly understand the roots of current situation and I don’t ask to use . . . → Read More: Unicode vs. Programming Languages]]> I really-really want to see a programming language, which allows using proper unicode symbols for operators.

I mean:

• × instead of *
• → instead of ->
• ← instead if <-
• ≠ instrad of !=
• ≤ and ≥ instead of <= and >=

This list can be continued more and more…

I perfectly understand the roots of current situation and I don’t ask to use ONLY unicode-symbols, but I ask language-manufacturers to allow this.

At first, there was Netscape and their first spec which wasn’t Y2K-compliant. Then, there was 1997 and the new spec: RFC2109 which fixed Y2K problem as well as couple of other minor issues . . . → Read More: Everything you didn’t want to know about cookies]]> While working on my app-server code, I bumped into a need to parse (and produce) cookie-headers, so I went to look for some specs…

At first, there was Netscape and their first spec which wasn’t Y2K-compliant. Then, there was 1997 and the new spec: RFC2109 which fixed Y2K problem as well as couple of other minor issues — this is the specification which is used by the major part of browsers, these days.

Then, in the year of 2000 RFC2965, which brings some quite interesting stuff. Unfortunately, this one is not supported by any browsers but Opera. (one more bit in a pile named “Opera is the most innovative standards-compliant browser”)

mnot has a nice article about support of cookies standards by browsers.

Now, about server-side…

PHP supports RFC2109 enhanced version of the Netscape standard (as mentioned in comments) and (since 5.2) microsoft’s “http-only” extension.
Python has support for 2965, but it is turned off by default.
Ruby seems to support 2965, but I didn’t test it, neither found enough evidence

I wonder which way should I implement this… Should I try detecting client capabilities and send cookies in corresponding format (if there is ‘Cookie2: $Version=1′ header I use SetCookie2, else I use SetCookie)? Or should I leave the this decision to the user?