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Thursday, 23rd October 2003

Knoppix

So, I finally tried Knoppix today. I’d heard a lot about it and was ready to be impressed, but it still took me by surprise. If you haven’t heard of Knoppix, it’s a full Linux distribution on a CD that is designed to boot straight from the CD, without you needing to install anything and without you having to worry about it modifying the contents of your hard drive.

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Pair Programming

I’ve spent a few hours over the last two days pair programming with Adrian. We’re working on a pretty huge project at the moment, and we’ve just started work on the coding phase, overlapping the design phase. I had tried pair programming a few times before with some success, but this time in particular the benefits of the approach were crystal clear. In total, we’ve defined 4 database tables, a number of functions and a simple class. Working separately we would almost certainly have created more lines of code. However...

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Progressive page updates

Now this is cool: The joy of flush() shows how PHP’s flush() function can be used to send data to the browser before a page has finished rendering. Check out Ben’s demo page to see the trick in action.

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