Building an Object Collection Manager with the SPL

Coding

First we are going to do a quick introduction to the interfaces we will be using. After that we...
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Gilligan goes to the movies

Culture

Last night, Amanda, Max and I went to see Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs. It was a funny movie, but funnier was the guy I met at the...
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Zen Cynicism: maitri

zen

  There was a story about the Zen master Suzuki Roshi. This was a situation where his students...
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The Mind Models of a Developer

Coding

The Interpreter – sees role as interpreting the back end processes to the user – application is a specialized gui to the...
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Graphs in the database: SQL meets social networks

Coding

Graphs are ubiquitous. Social or P2P networks, thesauri, route planning systems, recommendation systems, collaborative filtering, even the...
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open without leaving process fragments in your terminal

Coding

open() { NO_ARGS=0 if $# -eq "$NO_ARGS" then echo " enter a program"; else $1 &>/dev/null & fi }...
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PHP Validation and Sanitization with filters

Coding

One of the most common problems in web development in validating and sanitizing user inputted data. Often, we’re tempted to reinvent...
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Howl

Coding

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by coding, starving hysterical naked, debugging their code through var dumps at dawn...
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The Insufficiency of SCRUM

Coding

Interesting analysis of creeping issues in SCRUM. Having recently adopted SCRUM I haven’t...
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