Well things didn't go as expected over the weekend. We did get to the show as we hoped, but instead ended up a the doctors.

On Sunday morning besides the present thing we tidied up the garden ready for a the first barbee of the year for Sam's birthday. Once we had finsihed Xander was complaining about sore a eye and when we looked. Well his eye was so swolen the white of his eye was bulging out, so we need to rush him to the doctor.

Basically it turned out to be a very extreme case of hay fever, and we just need to get some eye drops to fix it. But it was kind of scary.

Sams birthday went well and everyone had a lot of fun.

Since I got my X40 back in April, I have always wondered if it had Bluetooth. On the underside it has a label for the bluetooth device, but I couldn't find it. I would run a lspci and I just couldn't identify it.

So the other day I was searching the net and ran across thinkwiki which has alsorts of interesting information. One piece of information was how to activate the bluetooth. Just press fn F5 and this enables the bluetooth under ubuntu linux.

It works really great, and I just need to make some changes to the ubuntu acpi network scripts so that I can cycle through the wire-less networks so I can have 1 turned on and the other not.

Thinkwiki is a great resource, Thanks.

Over the last couple of days I have won tickets to 2 movie premiers. The first which we are going to tomorrow which is Sky High, and the other is the Dukes of Hazard which is next Tuesday.

I am looking forward to the Dukes of Hazard because it is at the drive in and it will be the first time the kids have been to a drive in.

Over the last couple of weeks I have been doing quite a bit of work on the PHP RedBack Gateway. At this stage most functionality is working and is working quite well.

The best thing that I have done is that it can now communicate directly with the RedBack Object Server, and the best thing is that it is still 100% PHP. I have not had to do what I thought I was going to need to do and create an extension for my c library to get faster access.

I have been done some testing and from what I can tell it is pretty lean and mean. The most of the time is spent talking to the RBO Server and not the internal processing of the data within the object.

If anyone is interested please contact me at [email protected] 

Since LCA when I went to a session with Rasmus Lerdorf (The creator of PHP) and showed some really cool things with php5 objects, I have been busy in my spare time creating the redback gateway for php.

At this stage it only works through the rgw cgi gateway. But it will work with librbo some day as well. This will mean that it will be as deployable as possible, and the only php extension that you require is the socket interface.

Now as I suspected and the method that I implemented the handling of multi values it just works. I is some much easier to use that the asp or jsp gateways.

The method that the properties and methods are exposed to php it looks like a native object. So in asp it would be accessed like so.

<%
rbo("EmpId").value = '1002'
rbo.CallMethod("ReadData")
%>

and in jsp like this.

but in php it is like this.

<?php
$rbo->EmplId = 1002;
$rbo->ReadData();
?>

This is really cool. The supprising thing is that I think it is faster the the asp gateway even though I am just