I woke up today and had four zits on my forehead.
That’s like two more than I had my entire high school years. What’s up with that?Continue reading
Author: tychay
light writing, word loving, ❤ coding
Creative abuse of the OSCON submission system
OSCON proposals are due in 20 minutes. I submitted something just now. That’s like 10 minutes sooner than last time. I am improving. 🙂
The last talk new talk I gave was at OSCON so I had to come up with something new. Since I just changed jobs and actually spent the afternoon B.S.ing one of Dave’s submissions (in exchange, he was the one who reminded me (multiple times) that proposals are due), I had to keep things sort of vague but possibly interesting at the same time.
That was a challenge.
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Social network nitpicking
Dave point out that some stuff going on at LinkedIn which led him to mention this Business 2.0 article.
No, I don’t want to talk about Sundays at the Mountain View Starbucks—I guess I used to go to the other Starbucks—I just want to nitpick two things I read in the article.
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Terminology soup in x86
I’m trying to help someone in academia buy a unix workstation. The task involves intensive number crunching on very large (14 GB) data sets using packages like Maple, MatLab and SAS.
Here is a quote they got from their computing department:
There are two main UNIX servers:
- Sun Microsystems V40z with 2 Dual Core 64-bit AMD 852 CPU’s and 16GB RAM
running Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (64-bit).- Sun Microsystems V40z with 4 Dual Core 64-bit AMD 880 CPU’s and 32GB RAM
running Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (64-bit).Can you translate the above into English?
I appreciate any help.
[My translation after the jump.]
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On PHP Debuggers
[The views expressed in this blog are definitely my own and not those of anyone I work for, have worked for, or even get drunk with.]
I’m used to Xdebug. We use Zend Platform. Am I going to have to have a Rodney King moment?
Here is Derek’s take on it, and here is some guy from Eclipse PHP IDE’s response.
I don’t care.
I want the developers here to use the development environment they want and me to use the debugger/profiler I want. Anyone know a solution? Currently it seems that if I use Zend Platform, we have to use Zend Studio or Eclipse PDT to debug. If I use DBGp, we can use ActiveState Komodo, NuSphere PhpED, or PHPeclipse.
Am I wrong? Are there other editors that support DBGp? Which should I use (in particular I want have valgrind for profiling output and I like the built in error system in XDebug, but I haven’t had a chance to delve into Zend Platform so you can try to sell me on that).
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Adium 1.0 released
Simply the best messaging client ever.
Web 2.0 takes on SuperBowl commercials
Mischa mentioned that a bunch of Web 2.0 companies wanted to get in on the whole SuperBowl ad thing. Being Web 2.0 and not Web 1.0, they put their commercials on YouTube. Here is one from “the bunch of monkeys” I used to work for:
Their budget? $50 for the bar tab. Sure beats wasting 2 million bucks.
Web 2.0: Web 1.0, only cheaper.
Better living through laws?
I saw this article on the front page of the Merc today. Someone is proposing to ban sales of incandescent light bulbs by 2012 (to replace them with CFLs).
Even though they wreck havoc on photography, I only buy CFLs instead of incandescents. But does anyone else think this is a backwards way to go about transitioning?
[Law or Market after the jump]Continue reading
Unbreakable?
I’m trying to download Oracle SQL Developer for Mac OS X. In order to do that, I need to register; when I register, it locks up Firefox.
I know Oracle is unbreakable, but that doesn’t mean breaking the web browser guys. 😀
(It worked in Safari just fine.)
HTML in Outlook 2007
I missed this one but it’s an important one.
Outlook 2007 uses Word as the HTML/CSS rendering engine instead of Internet Explorer.
This is possibly semi-smart for Microsoft to help them deal deal with security in a uniform manner, but it really sucks for the web developer since Word is more crippled than Internet Explorer which is now the the hardest browser to develop for.
[More arguments after the jump]
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