Someone introduced me the other day: “Do you know, Terry? He’s one of the coolest guys I know.” And I thought Where did he get his crack pipe? Then it occurred to me: Maybe he doesn’t know what I do? and balance was restored to the Force. So I let him go with a citation. […]
The other day someone asked me again about what I thought about jQuery, and I’m getting tired of repeating myself for almost a year. jQuery actually is fodder for an interview question I sometimes ask: What’s wrong with the jQuery $() function? [Showing you the money after the jump.]
Someone took exception to me saying: “I have yet to read a good “Pragmatic Programmer Series” book.” …with the lines: “I think that’s a bit of a hard knock of the Pragmatic Bookshelf. I’ve had a number of books which I’ve really enjoyed from them; The Pragmatic Programmer and Practices of an Agile Developer spring […]
Why Enterprise Web Scalability is Science Fiction: You Use PHP to Troll WHOM?!. The wherefore of this article and an introduction. Even the Pros are Cons. Why PHP’s advantages in enterprise are a form of backhanded compliment. Sinking a fleet of FAIL. Reasons for why PHP should not be used in enterprise fail you. Time […]
Why Enterprise Web Scalability is Science Fiction: You Use PHP to Troll WHOM?!. The wherefore of this article and an introduction. Even the Pros are Cons. Why PHP’s advantages in enterprise are a form of backhanded compliment. Sinking a fleet of FAIL. <——THIS POST Reasons for why PHP should not be used in enterprise fail […]
Why Enterprise Web Scalability is Science Fiction: You Use PHP to Troll WHOM?!. The wherefore of this article and an introduction. Even the Pros are Cons. <——THIS POST Why PHP’s advantages in enterprise are a form of backhanded compliment. Sinking a fleet of FAIL. Reasons for why PHP should not be used in enterprise fail […]
Why Enterprise Web Scalability is Science Fiction. Its five part mission: to explore myths of PHP, to seek out this “Enterprise Scalability”, to boldy go where no web developer would bother going before… *queue music* You Use PHP to Troll WHOM?! <——THIS POST. The wherefore of this article and an introduction. Even the Pros are […]
Just now, Mager messaged me: “I am excited for Lunch two dot oh—I don’t say “point-oh” anymore. Flashback. … In the summer of 1992, a friend was reading me a geek purity test he got from USENET. One of the questions was: Do you pronounce “*.*” as “star-dot-star?” Of course, since he was reading it […]
I blame Merlin Mann of 43 folders. He’s the one who popularized Moleskines years ago. How else can I explain that right after I wrote about my analog blog that Brian Moon pointed me to the very next xkcd about that. Which caused my friends to point out the sequel article: Journal 2 by xkcd […]
Hmm it looks like my rant touched off a spirited defense from the writer of Mephisto. Hey, that’s my blogging system! I’m just curious what kind of error page a bad url should show? Something like this? And yes, the mephisto title is me having fun. Lighten up, dude 😀 I never said it wasn’t […]