The 0.9 beta release of Torpor (all major features work, but only in MySQL and there’s some definite clean-up and organization to be done) is available now: TorporPHP_0.9b.tar.gz (via Google project hosting) I also need to correct a statement I made earlier during the introduction of Torpor – this is not the first mature persistence
Torpor Pronunciation: \ˈtôr-pər\ Definition: Temporary or short-term hibernation, characterized physiological activity. The first mature persistence layer abstraction for PHP, provided by Yours Truly under the MIT license. Link: torpor-php (via Google Project Hosting) The name is a direct take off of Hibernate since it provides very similar functionality for Object Relational Mapping. It is not,
This is a horrible picture, because I didn’t bother with setting up the right kind of lighting and/or moving the specimen to better conditions. As a result, the tungsten filament light was refracted through the side of the ornamented glass pitcher, resulting in the bands visible here (correcting for tungsten is easy – uneven lighting,
Once again, I’ve found myself the target of credit card fraud, and once again it had absolutely nothing to do with our activities as cardholders. Not sure how they got the card number this time, probably from a weak link in the processing chain at a miscellaneous vendor. What’s interesting though was the savvy shown
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