The Design and Implementation of laffer1

Yesterday, I participated in commencement at Eastern Michigan University.  My parents, aunt nicki, and cousin sean attended along with Caryn.  It was an interesting experience.  An actor from Law and Order SVU was the guest speaker.  He went to EMU for a few years and then went to NYC to act 35 years ago.  My aunt's car had some battery trouble after the event.  We got it jumped and she was able to get it repaired for a safe journey home.  My parents joined Caryn and I downtime.  We went to Seva for dinner.  Then I had to complete an online final (history 103?)  and then get some sleep for a final in the morning in COSC314 (Computational Discrete Structs).  That was my last final.

I'll still be helping out at the CS department for a bit while they transition into my replacement;  That involves some web application development and a little server administration.   Kirk has been a good boss.  

I'm also working on a project for my new job.  It's PHP work.  I probably shouldn't get into too much detail.  

My father gave me a nice watch for graduation.  

I've been playing around with egroupware.  It's a kitchen sink PHP app that does everything but blogging.  Aside from insane php.ini customization, a ridiculous PEAR dependancy list, and a 35 Euro manual, it's just so so.  Actually, the manual is the biggest problem.  I'm all for open source projects making money on detailed books, but paying 35 Euro for a PDF install manual is silly.  I figured out the installation myself, but developing a simple module is another matter.  Without proper documentation, it's a matter of looking at existing modules and determining the minimum to get one running.  After some mailing lists posts, and viewing code, I got a simple module loading without templates and SQL access.  The ACL table is particularly vague.  What's the difference between -1 and 6?  Way to use meaningful constants.  I don't see how someone could use egroupware and other PHP apps on the same server without a jail environment.  The php.ini settings conflict with phpMyAdmin and Squirrelmail.  While one can argue the latter is not needed with it, the former is quite handy.  

I could see the app as a useful environment for some folks with integrated authentication (LDAP, mysql, AD, etc) and wiki + email client.