While attending PHPUK conference in London, I noticed how much talk there is about PHP 5.3 and “when to upgrade?”, there was even a presentation about that. Because I have been using PHP 5.3 for more than half a year, I decided to share my views on this topic. This topic is very important as the earlier PHP 5.3 is adopted, the sooner second iteration of frameworks can be released
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At GitHub we don’t have a project tracker or todo list – we just all work on whatever is most interesting to us. No standup meetings, burndown charts or points to assign. No chickens or pigs. It’s sort of the open source software style of business – everyone itches thier own scratch. Inexplicably, it works really well and keeps everyone engaged, new features appearing quickly and bugs fixed rather fast. No managers, directors, PMs or departments – and it’s the most agile, focused and efficient team I’ve ever worked with. Maybe we should write a book about it.
Interesting (and amusing) interview with scott chacon of github.
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Now if some people cannot accept that Symfony 2 is really fast and if they cannot accept that Symfony 2 is great step forward for PHP, that's sad. The web evolves very fast. Competition is everywhere for PHP. We should all be in the same boat.
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Mathematics is beautiful.” This may sound absurd to people who wince at numbers and equations. But some of the most beautiful things in nature and our universe exhibit mathematical properties, from the smallest seashell to the biggest whirlpool galaxies. In fact, one of the greatest ancient philosophers, Aristotle, said: “The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order, symmetry and limitation; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.
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It seems there is an issue with the Spamassassin FH_DATE_PAST_20XX test. This test checks whether the email has a date in the future and, if this is the case, raises the message’s score. Apparently, this test is falsely triggered by all emails that have been sent in 2010, producing several false positives.
Due to a bug in the Spamassassin ruleset a lot of messages fail the FH_DATE_PAST_20XX check 'cause they are sent in 2010(!).
The resolution is quite handy: just run sa-update.
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Amidst the privacy policy debacle that Facebook is facing, another tip off from one of their employee is definitely not helping their current situation. An interview with an anonymous Facebook employee conducted on blogsite The Rumpus confirms that Facebook knows your every move. They know who you are stalking and when you do it; this information is stored permanently.
The full interview can be found here, and not all the information are new but there are a few shocking statements included.
Just a short reminder.
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Looks like Fabien is definitely one of those guys with 48 hours / day.
No matter how he manages his time, this step looks really promising.
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Just a little reminder for myself: In 93 of 95 cases i want to exclude all of the .svn subdirectories lying around in my working copy.
Andreas brought that one to my mind again with a nasty forest of grep pipes. ;-)
grep -R --exclude \*.svn\* your_pattern
gives me only the output I really need.
Update (2:42pm):
Gosh. After @denderello got nudged about my last blog post I gave http://betterthangrep.com/ a try.
It came via macports and I'm already loving it's colorful output and the per-file groups. Neato.
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I installed my mamp stack via macports, so the normal GUI-tools of Mac OS won't let me toggle any services. Coming from the Linux / init world thats my bumbling approach to have a quick startup-script for Apache and MySQL:
#!/bin/bash if [ "$1" == "start" ]; then /opt/local/apache2/bin/apachectl start& /opt/local/bin/mysqld_safe5& else /opt/local/apache2/bin/apachectl stop /opt/local/bin/mysqladmin5 -u root shutdown fi
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