Hebrew in PHP (or “Unexpected What?”)
One of the guys here just got an interesting PHP error:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘)’, expecting T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM in C:\wamp\index.php on line 201
Apparently it’s hebrew for “double colon”.
You learn something new every day.
Firefox 3 Smart Bookmarks (or “Find Your Place”)
Firefox 3 includes an interesting concept called places. The idea is that all history and bookmarks are stored in a SQLite database, and the browser exposes an API to interact with the data. You’ll see it in action in the “Smart Bookmarks” button in the Bookmarks Toolbar — these are dynamic queries against the database [...]
The iPhone SDK is out (or “What Eric is Doing in His Free Time”)
If the title wasn’t enough to explain, Apple released a development kit for the iPhone / iPod Touch. In fact, the second beta release of it is out now. So my free time whatever that is) will be sucked up by learning Objective C and developing some apps for the iPhone, in addition to that [...]
Distration, Depression and Focus in a Shiny New World (or “There and Back to Your Old Thing Again”)
There is a phenomenon that I have experienced, but never really thought much about the effects. Programmers are an interesting bunch that thrive on new things, new challenges, new languages, new everything. We like new things, some may say we need new things to keep us going.
I’m sure every programmer can identify with [...]
Naive Programmers (or “Why Programmers are Like Children”)
There are some programmers out there that are naive, or even ignorant to the world around them. These programmers do not think of the full spectrum of the impact of the things they create, nor do they think of the users that actually use them. The simply come across as negative, and complaining. [...]