Open source or Free software
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In his essay describing why people should use the term "open source" instead of "free software", ESR says that the term "free software" is ambiguous. Specifically, the term ...7 Topics from January, 2005
strange coding practises
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Fair warning to all, heavy geek joke ahead. While reading the comp.lang.php Usenet group, I came across this exchange ctrl+alt+delete writes: I am interested in ...
Small courtesies
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Small courtesies shown to others do add to to make big positive karma for you. And by small courtesies, I really mean the small things - like a thank you note sent to the ...
Notepad++
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Notepad++ is an excellent replacement for Windows notepad. Defined tags for this entry: link
Presentation for developers
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Yesterday, I had to give an introduction to the LAMP stack to a group of trainees. My energy was mostly focused on the MySQL and PHP part. I had gone to the workshop with ...
Advanced PHP Programming impressions
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Got myself "Advanced PHP Programming" by Schlossnagle . I started reading it last night, (currently on chapter 3 - "Error Handling"). Excellent book, with clear and good ...
Fighting Comment spam
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Wordpress has a nifty feature for fighting comment spam. It allows you to blacklist certain words (like Viagra, casinos). Any comment which has those words (either in the ...