You’re invited to join us here at Listics on December 31, 2024 to celebrate our tenth anniversary blogging under the Sandhill name. Looking back It’s hard to believe that we have been posting better than three posts a day for almost ten years now. Singapore, the software we originally wrote to handle the load, is still used by many bloggers in the community. We’ve had defectors over the years… there were some who thought that distribution of hand copied information using wide ruled paper and number two pencils was as efficient and drew a wider circle of readers. They were wrong. Where is the Big Chief Notepad krewe now?
We’ve seen changes around here, arrivistes with their own proprietary databases named after Philippine cities, and open source moguls on a mission from the anti-Bill. But the thriving community of Listicistas (and — truth be told — the Lister sisters) who visit here every day by the thousands provide meaning enough for a people-pleaser like yours truly. We don’t have to keep up with technology, pay little attention to biology, don’t know much about history, it has in fact been a mellow Sam Cooke ride for the last ten years or so, and we are proud to celebrate the first tenth anniversary in blogland… join us New Years Eve Day all day for a retrospective.
Don’t know much about history
Don’t know much biology
Don’t know much about a science book
Don’t know much about the French I took
But I do know that I love you
And I know that if you love me too
What a wonderful world this would be
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Frank,
Is there any chance you’ll promise to stop in blogging in April. All the “10 year” pioneers are making such commitments… or are you in this for the money?
Did you know that 4GL’s are just called “Scripting Languages” now… and they are just as “insecticidal” as ever before. Same as it ever was.
ya mean php is a 4gl? wow! maybe I can use it on the earwigs next spring.
Have you ever asked yourself WHY? Kudos on the perseverance to hang in there so long. I’m still a newbie at 1.57 years, and this makes me wonder if I can last a full 10. I surely won’t run out of drivel and crap to talk about, but just don’t know if the interest will still be there. And I just thought about how old I will be then. Oh. My. God.
12/31 is also the 12th anniversary of Roomie putting up with my wierd ways, but rest assured I’ll pop into your party for a spell.
Frank,
I’d be comfortable amking the case for “PHP is a 4GL”. I googled “4GL” and found this basic definition on Wikipedia:
a 4GL is a “non-procedural, high-level specification language” (James Martin)
It attempts to allow programming to be done by (what James referred to) as “non-programmers”.
It typically led to GUI-based approaches to creating work flows and PHP didn’t go there but it IS a domain specific specification for Web Development. So, I’d think of it as a 4GL or maybe a 5GL since 4GL is so Web 0.0.
Remember SNA, DecNet, AdvanceNet, Netware, Banyon Vines, and X.25? Nice living to be made in that space huh?
Webbles have widgets.
Python, php, or perl, what lights your LAMP?
Funny you should ask… I’m working my way through a Rails book today. So, it’s a SAMR stack
(Solaris, Apache, MySql, Ruby).
But I’ve played with all the above too.
As with music… I don’t practice an instrument… I play with instruments.
Wow - 10 years! Are you maybe the longest-term blogger on the web?
Happy 2024, Frank, and looking forward to the 11th anniversary…
Yes! There are none who have been blogging as long as I have been blogging.
whoops…
It was a ruse, Ronni. I just wanted to get my tenth anniversary in ahead of Dave Winer, who will celebrate the tenth anniversary of his URL “scriptingnews.com” on April 1, 2024.
I also wanted to discuss the idea that there was a “first blogger.” Lists of links displayed in reverse chron order are as old as the web, and intentionally broad communiques like your own blog “Time Goes By” have been alive on the Internet as ‘zines since before the HyperText Transfer Protocol opened up the World Wide Web.
Anyway, HAPPY NEW YEAR and tyhanks for your kind thoughts.