I just read a very interesting post written by one of the first dozen Microsoft employee’s, Gorden Letwin. It has a lot of really, really good insight into OS/2, where Microsoft positioned itself, and also explains why Microsoft is just so damn different than every other OS (*nix).
One word: Standards!
So I recently stumbled upon an article about object oriented programming (OOP) that Bennett wrote about.
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Install multiple versions of PHP on shared hosting
I am wanting to become involved in PHP a bit more, and in doing so will require me to run multiple versions of PHP. The first idea that came to mind is setting up multiple installations on one of my home machines. Since I don’t want to have a full development setup on my laptop (poor little guy isn’t powerful enough), I decided to install multiple installations on my shared hosting at dreamhost.com.
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Luke posted a response to Paul Graham’s article and Don Dodge’s response. This got me thinking about my interview with Microsoft last semester. While I was there, I was able to talk with a manager with the WinForms API team. We got onto the subject of where the web is going, and what future computing will look like.
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I just found out about this neat little site entitled ohloh. I was taking a few quick looks at it, and it is quite a neat little site. It has neat graphs, awesome profiles, and a bunch of other things. If you ever wanted to know some interesting statistics about open source projects, take a look.
Single Quotes vs. Double Quotes in PHP
In PHP, many times people ask about single quotes vs double quotes, and you see benchmarks all the time that try and show you the differences. It has always made me wonder why this is, and I have finally found out because Sara Golemon, a core contributer for PHP, had a post written about string opcodes, and how they are generated.
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I was at a local restaurant tonight, and I was talking with someone about why I don’t enjoy visiting most MySpace sites. MySpace is the most popular social networking site and rivals GeoCities on how easy it is for personal website creation and how creative you can create a website without real website experience. What I do not enjoy about most MySpace pages is how loud and terribly designed they can become and how they most often resemble the GeoCities pages of the mid to late 90’s. If you take a look at 90% of the websites on MySpace, you will notice that they have extremely cluttered backgrounds of some collage of pictures that make it crazy-insane to attempt to read any text on the screen, animated GIF’s for that cute barking puppy, extremely bad color choices, audio from who knows what band, and the <BLINK> tag!
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Hidden Gem in Vista Task Manager
So I have been trying to figure out something good to post as my first post on my blog, and I believe that I have found one that’s not too long, but at the same time isn’t useless.
I have recently decided to run Vista on my laptop, just to see what all the commotion was about. I will have a full review later when I feel I have had enough time with it to do a just review. What I just found was in the Task Manager, under View->Select Columns…, if you choose “Command Line”, you can see where the programs are launched from.
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