So the lack of an option to "Sort By Date" in NetNewsWire Lite had always frustrated me. Yes, I could have paid to upgrade to the full NetNewsWire, but I prefer free, both in terms of "free beer" and "free speech". So the lack of that feature had me searching for a new RSS Reader.

After poking around the new king of the block for Mac OS X is Vienna. In addition to being able to "Sort By Date", it has most of the features available from NetNewsWire and it has an active support messaging system. If you have a ...

PECL-APC is an alternative PHP cache that should speed up the delivery of PHP based web applications. There are conflicts between APC and Gallery, so I have to avoid caching the php-based photo gallery software used at the-eleven.com.

PECL-APC 3.0.11 has just been released. It hopefully provides fixes for a few errors. If the stability is good, I'm even willing to test out the optimizer later to see how experimental it is. Detailed configuration information on the various options available for APC.

If you've lurked around The Eleven for a few years, you know about Substance, the forum where registered users discuss topics from food and television to politics.

The forum software is FUDforum, that runs on PHP with various data backends including PostgreSQL. The latest version of the software is 2.7.6RC1.

I had installed FUDforum starting with the 2.3 branch and had upgraded through to 2.6.15, which is the end of the 2.6 branch. I hadn't been able to upgrade to the 2.7 branch due to issues with misrecognition of the upgrade ...

So I've just updated this blog to the Serendipity 1.1 beta 1. Time to kick the tires and see how the new version performs.