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I've found out that YACS only pings 5 rpc servers when publishing an article (like this blog entry), also when I did hack it, to allow all my configured ping servers, it was slow, so I have moved back to using pingomatic which is pings multiple servers on my behalf.

I found a strange bug in YACS! or my server last night, which prevents a class called "Call" not being able to be used, so I am on a mission today to find out why, I'm guessing its a server configuration issue.

Well after a quiet few weeks on the web, due to my favourite forum on www.geoffthompson.com being abruptly closed, someone has taken the the initivie to setup a replacement: selfprotection.lightbb.com . I am very happy because I was left without any form of contact with the good guys on the old place.

Just been looking at my collegues photos:
flickr: johnseb

After recently reading about MVC, I cant understand what the fuss is about. I already seperate data access, business logic and presentation logic, I use event driven user input, these are things i've learnt from general Object Oriented programming, it just seems MVC imposes rules that create a strict framework, that can add unncessary complexity (frontpage controller as an example) and reduces portability of my code to other projects unless they follow the same strict framework based on the MVC model. Its not that I think MVC is bad, but seems hard to define (various versions and using different words for different things) which causes a lot of people to have a big headache over what MVC is eg  www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?t=184548 .

I think people get too tied down in trying to follow a pattern like this rather than following what the project needs.

Whilst speaking to Bernard on the yacs forum I was given a link to www.extremeprogramming.org and have been reading about this different approach to  programming and also found this link: www.martinfowler.com/articles/newMethodology.html#N401 and makes some interesting points

Me and Jen took a 200 mile trip to visit our old Friend Yorick. Met a number of new faces, caught up on the news and had a good laugh. Managed not to drink too much, stuck to my beer and avoided the Tequilla bar this time !
Rather tired.

A big thanks to Yorick and Penny for hosting the BBQ/party and the rest of the Visordown gang.

I am currently testing YACS !

Just spent ages configuring blog ping servers, this is my list:
Ice Rocket
Pub Sub
News Gator
Weblog a lot
Blog Rolling
Syndic8
 News Is Free
Blog Digger
Feedburner
Feedster
Weblogs
 Blo.gs
Moreover
Technorati
Yahoo
Yet Another Community System

Hopefully these will get pinged when I publish this page

This page demonstrates the rendering of the 'daily' layout.