Is overloading a bad thing? Despite a wide variety of new languages supporting some form of it I continue to find articles that say overloading is bad. Worse, I find many articles that somehow think overloading operators is bad but that overloading functions is perfectly okay. Let's take a quick look at the argument. more⇛

Each time I start a new project I find myself looking at the latest batch of frameworks. Lately those are web frameworks, such as CakePHP, RubyOnRails, perhaps JQuery, or any other of the thousands which seem to exist. Usually I end up using none of them. Mostly they are too complex, too bulky, and too restrictive. Some projects confuse rapid application development (RAD) with a framework, sometimes a content manager is called a framework, and a significant number are simply junk. more⇛

Storing user credentials is one of the key roadblocks in creating a sessionless web application. Somehow you need to safely identify the user without storing data on the server nor allowing tampering on the client. If you could solve this problem you'd be well on your way to a sessionless application. Encrypted tokens are the solution. more⇛

This new version supports images. Here is one I used on http://BigTPoker.com/↗. more⇛

I've upgraded the software here again. I know the main site is rather dead, but the code is used for http://testplan.brainbrain.net/↗ and http://bigtpoker.com/↗. Most of the new features are for those sites. The upgrade also brings alternate title support, in use on testplan, and image uploading -- not enabled here, to be used on BigTPoker.com replies⇛