Ron Liskey, Internet application developer | Doing far less, much better, more often. | Planting the seeds of a better world. Online.

Ken Robinson: How to escape education's death valley

Sir Ken Robinson outlines 3 principles crucial for the human mind to flourish -- and how current education culture works against them.

Who needs coding standards?

Standards are boring. They take away our freedom. But they matter when groups of programmers work together on the same codebase. Coding standards are, well, standard among mature programming communities, such as Java.

PHP's humble beginings as a simple tagging language for "Personal Home Pages" has given the PHP community other advantages, in particular the ability to quickly deliver solutions while Java developers are still defining their spec. However, as PHP applications increase in complexity, professional techniques gain increased importance.

Bash script to view times in different timezones

The following snippet prints the current time for multiple timezones.

Set a temporary URL before the DNS transfer on Drupal sites

How to adjust a Drupal site to work with a temporary domain name.

Securely backup remotes sites using rsync

Use rsync over SSH to efficiently transfer files from a remote server. Original inspiration is from the Apress book, Pro PHP Security, by Chris Snyder and Michael Southwell. This also explains why the script is written in PHP.

Email vs. E-Mail

Don Knuth, one of the Godfathers of computing, publishing, and general common sense has weighed in on the question of how the word 'email' should be written. To finally settle this once and for all, I hope this blatant appeal to his substantial authority will suffice. The good Knuth has written:

Planting the seeds of a better world. Online.

On February 15, 2013, CommunityGrove merged with LiliO to become one of the smallest international conglomerates in history. With this, Ron Liskey of CommunityGrove has joined the team of Jesse D. Osmer and Mathias Bolt Lesniack at LiliO.

For over a decade, LiliO has served the organizations who make our world a better place by providing high-quality design, development, training and support for both online and print media.

Canoe Paddle Project

The enclosed PDF file contains detailed directions for making high-quality wooden canoe paddles. The procedures have been successfully used with several groups of seventh graders.

For all my years in public life, I have believed that America must sail toward the shores of liberty and justice for all. There is no end to that journey, only the next great voyage. We know the future will outlast all of us, but I believe that all of us will live on in the future we make.

— Edward Kennedy

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