Last year, Oracle bought Sun, which had bought MySQL. Which means Oracle owns their biggest competitor in the database market. You can read more details here.

There’s a petition online to keep MySQL developed under the GPL (meaning it continues to be available for free). Please go and sign the petition. Every bit helps.

Basically, I use Chrome for everything, and I use Firefox if I have to debug a script (their web developer add on is really wonderful).  If there’s absolutely no way around it, I’ll use Internet Explorer (damn you, microsoft.com…). As anybody who’s ever designed websites will tell you, IE is EVIL.

And we don’t negotiate with terrorists.

But sometimes the terrorists restrict functionality to proprietary software that doesn’t understand basic web standards.

So. A little about myself. My name is John P. Bloch, and I am the owner/adminstrator of the website.  I have been doing web design for about three years now, and have been doing web programming in PHP and Javascript for almost a year and half a year, respectively.

More updates soon, as well as layout and design tweaks to come soon.