I’m thinking about posting a poll in a couple of days about software communities and I’m looking for some input on some of the responses. I have my set of possible responses, but I’d like some input before posting the poll. So, if you have some ideas, please post them in the comments. The question [...]
Watch 12 Cute Dogs Bark The Star Wars Imperial March In VW’s Super Bowl Ad Teaser.
I’ve wondered. What does a superhero do in their free time? If you have an idea why don’t you take this transparent PNG and put him in the middle of a few high jinks. Post links to your images in the comments.
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Today is NOT binary day. It is not 11/11/11 11:11:11. It is 11/11/2011 11:11:11. The number two is not a binary number. The last time we had a binary day “like this” the Crusades were happening. There are 2,917,608 days before the next legitimate Binary Day and by then we’ll all be addicted to the [...]
There’s an “Occupy Whitehorse“. No, Americans, I did not mis-spell that. And, yes, that says “sole” as in “one”. I, for one, am part of the Occupy Schroeder Household movement. Our (my) demands are the immediate disolution of HOA rules and dues (save for the pool and a couple of flowers), a federal 50% tax [...]
This year OsCon will be graced by my presence. And by that I mean; I get to go to OsCon!! This month on July 27th I will be speaking on PHP Performance. I’m convinced that application performance is one of the most misunderstood problems out there. How do I know this? I spent just [...]
What do you spend your time on? What types of applications do you work on? I’m not so much curious about the frameworks you use, or your production environment. What you do, not what you use, is what I’m interested in. Do you build a blog, a CMS, an order entry system, a social media [...]
I hate config files. There, I said it. Made a change to your configuration? Database? Temp location? Gotta redeploy your application. Even if you have an awesome deployment mechanism it just seems somehow wrong to have to redeploy your app to make a configuration change. From a security standpoint, I don’t particularly like having passwords and such being stored in a source repository. Or making it part of your build process. Or manually editing files in production.
ECommerce is a small thing, right? Nobody’s doing it and it’s so simple that everyone who does it is doing it right. When that Cyber Monday hits, nobody panics; sites stay up, they’re able to handle the load and nobody gets yelled at, right?
OK, maybe 20 years ago.