The popular blogging tool Textpattern was forked as xPattern earlier this year. I hosted WarpedVisions using Textpattern for about a year, but found that WordPress’s development was much more active. Here’s hoping that xPattern kicks some life back into that capable platform.

Mister Peabody compares UNIX fork()s with Window’s CreateProcess() family of function calls.

Why Frameworks Suck
“Frameworks hurt sharing. I’d really like to give you this fork Jimmy, but you’re gonna need a knife and plate to use it. The framework checks out all your girlfriends for you, the framework won’t let anyone dirty get through, the framework will wait up until you get in, the framework will always find out were you’ve been, the framework keeps you healthy and clean. Frameworks embrace, extend and hold on to greedily.”

Stick a fork where, Ben? Ben chooses one moment in time where he perceives Yahoo to have barely edged ahead and calls the game over (’three-nil’). Even if I agreed with his analysis, in the words of Yogi Berra “We didn’t lose, the game just ended too early.”