May 30, 2005
We all know there are a handful of people in this world making tons of money sending out spam e-mail. It has always been my belief that these people, although they truly “represent all that is soulless and wrong”, must be at least moderately intelligent. I mean, not only do they have to market and [...]
May 28, 2005
Yes, I know. The previous post was obligatory as well.
It’s hard to read developer blogs these days without running into posts related to Ajax or advanced client side scripting in general. To tell you the truth, I haven’t really looked into it in any detail. Where am I going with this? Oh yeah, Zef blogged [...]
May 24, 2005
Yes, I’m sorry, but this is my obligatory Star Wars Episode III rant. But don’t get me wrong, I’m siding with George Lucas and company.
Something that annoys the hell out of me is the fact that a lot of people seem to feel compelled to dismiss and criticize all sequals, prequels, remakes and the like. [...]
May 20, 2005
Most modern PHP web applications these days use some kind of database abstraction/adapter class (or collection of functions). The most obvious benefit of abstracting database communication is that one can, at least in theory, just drop in a new script file to support a new database. There are more benefits though. I’m thinking of one [...]
May 14, 2005
Zef blogs about how much he likes the works of Joel Spolsky and thinks we should head over and read Joel’s latest piece called Making Wrong Code Look Wrong. It’s a good read and coming from Joel, it is likely to influence more people than if say, I were to write up something similar. I [...]