Xeoncross

"Fred is Envato’s only PHP developer, valiantly holding the fort against the Ruby dev team who..."

Fri, 01 Jan 2010 14:44:11 -0500

“Fred is Envato’s only PHP developer, valiantly holding the fort against the Ruby dev team who consider their development language to be superior.”

- Skillie

"But the pigments make up such a small portion of the paint, even the tree huggers should let..."

Sat, 26 Dec 2009 14:11:09 -0500

“But the pigments make up such a small portion of the paint, even the tree huggers should let themselves off with choosing an unnatural baby blue.”

- Ross Samson

"Why should language need a === operator in the first place? == can be taken to mean “sorta,..."

Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:31:16 -0500

“

Why should language need a === operator in the first place? == can be taken to mean “sorta, kinda equals, but maybe not” === means “no, no, no… REALLY, REALLY equals, not sorta equals”

How many people with decent programming backgrounds write their first PHP script and then have to replace == with === ?

”

- Lobby Jones

"Ask any programmer why they use an ORM, and the answer is likely to be “impedance..."

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 18:54:34 -0500

“Ask any programmer why they use an ORM, and the answer is likely to be “impedance mismatch”. This is a lovely phrase from a rhetorical point of view - hovering at the edge of meaning, but nicely avoiding asserting anything that can actually be quantified.”

- Aldo Cortesi

"Iraqi insurgents have been regularly using the satellite-snooping software to monitor live Predator..."

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:59:57 -0500

“Iraqi insurgents have been regularly using the satellite-snooping software to monitor live Predator video feeds. Apparently the Predator transmits video over an unencrypted link, so there’s no major hacking or security breach going on here, but it’s obviously a huge issue — and we’d say the bigger problem is that Pentagon officials have known about this flaw since the 1990s, but they didn’t think insurgents would figure out how to exploit it. Way to underestimate, guys.”

- Nilay Patel

SQL For the Insane

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 22:02:32 -0500

SQL For the Insane

ORM Concepts

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:37:14 -0500

ORM Concepts

"When we say that GPLv2 and GPLv3 are incompatible, it means there is no legal way to combine code..."

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 13:12:32 -0500

“When we say that GPLv2 and GPLv3 are incompatible, it means there is no legal way to combine code under GPLv2 with code under GPLv3 in a single program. This is because both GPLv2 and GPLv3 are copyleft licenses: each of them says, “If you include code under this license in a larger program, the larger program must be under this license too.” There is no way to make them compatible. We could add a GPLv2-compatibility clause to GPLv3, but it wouldn’t do the job, because GPLv2 would need a similar clause.”

- Richard Stallman

"Sure we limit the install base a little, but what host worth it’s beans doesn’t have the..."

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 20:58:36 -0500

“Sure we limit the install base a little, but what host worth it’s beans doesn’t have the standard pdo database drivers installed?”

- Allain

John Piper and the Prosperity Gospel

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:05:23 -0500

John Piper and the Prosperity Gospel

No Mr President

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:01:31 -0500

No Mr President

Chromium OS Security

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:33:24 -0500

Chromium OS Security

"The Windows GIMP installer is 16MB if that takes 5 hours to download it would mean it takes 9.11..."

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:28:58 -0500

“The Windows GIMP installer is 16MB if that takes 5 hours to download it would mean it takes 9.11 days to download the full 700MB ISO. Wow I just realized something, if it takes 5 hours to download 16MB that is about 7Kb/s. At that rate it take 9.11 days to download 700MB. See the relationship 700, 7, and 9.11. It means that GWB knew about 9-11. 9-11 was perfectly executed hence the 7, the 700 club is a conservative organization so that means GWB new. Canonical fits in because Linux is a Communist system and they want to found a NWO. PEOPLE OPEN YOUR EYES”

- GIMP Dropped From Ubuntu 10.04

Make War

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:50:49 -0500

Make War

"I can change 99% of the layout of any of my sites by just changing the style sheet; there is no need..."

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:33:50 -0500

“I can change 99% of the layout of any of my sites by just changing the style sheet; there is no need to dive into the HTML. Only if the site needs a major overhaul the HTML must be changed. If your web designer tells you this isn’t true, fire him.”

- Voostind

5th Annual Bonnie Blue Ball

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:06:37 -0500

5th Annual Bonnie Blue Ball

Huckabee Interviews Ex-Planned Partenthood Director Abby Johnson

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:51:38 -0500

Huckabee Interviews Ex-Planned Partenthood Director Abby Johnson

"Languages like Ruby and Python are chock full of things geared toward computer programmers. If you..."

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:18:57 -0500

“Languages like Ruby and Python are chock full of things geared toward computer programmers. If you hire a Python or a Ruby programmer, just by virtue of knowing the language that programmer is many, many times more likely to appreciate clean, well organized code than a PHP developer. That is part of the culture of those languages, and the people who evangelize them.”

- Andrew Noyes

Eye on the Flu Shot

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 15:27:15 -0500

Eye on the Flu Shot

"It’s a centuries-old tradition. That’s how Halloween was started, you know. Santa asked..."

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 15:11:42 -0500

“It’s a centuries-old tradition. That’s how Halloween was started, you know. Santa asked the thanksgiving turkey, “Should I use mbstring.func_overload?”.”

- Frank Farmer