Keith over at dotnetpimps (see trackback) has written a decent piece on the state of open source software and what it has and what it doesn’t. Really not anything that hasn’t been said before, but nicely summed up.
I’ve had discussions with mark on this topic over years (and with keith occasionally) and Mark’s take [...]

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“aproposnent”  n.  someone who supports what seems to be the most pertinent idea or thing.

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I was discussing things with my brother the other day and I came up with a problem which he helped name.  I’m currently maintaining some code, and it’s quite a jumble.  One of the things I can tell is that one of my predecessors began adding new sections of code to clean up the logic [...]

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I was discussing things with my brother the other day and I came up with a problem which he helped name.  I’m currently maintaining some code, and it’s quite a jumble.  One of the things I can tell is that one of my predecessors began adding new sections of code to clean up the logic [...]

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My friend Joe Stump ran into a problem today with MySQL’s REPLACE INTO functionality.  REPLACE INTO does a full-on DELETE of the record, then a new INSERT.  When you have triggers that do things based on DELETEing, the REPLACE INTO trips the DELETE triggers, which caused unintended consequences.
I first got excited when I heard about [...]

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My friend Joe Stump ran into a problem today with MySQL’s REPLACE INTO functionality.  REPLACE INTO does a full-on DELETE of the record, then a new INSERT.  When you have triggers that do things based on DELETEing, the REPLACE INTO trips the DELETE triggers, which caused unintended consequences.
I first got excited when I heard about [...]

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I’ve been wanting to do an aimbot for years. I haven’t done one since around 2001 or so, and all I remember is I kept getting kicked off the network. Perhaps I will get kicked off again! If so, I think yahoo is better about opening up their network these days…
Anyway, if [...]

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Gary over at thephpgrind.net posted about slow PHP5 adoption.  I posted a couple thoughts on why PHP5 hasn’t been adopted as quickly as people would like, but forgot another reason: concurrency.
When going from PHP3->PHP4, it was possible to run both mod_php3 and mod_php4 in Apache at the same time – .php3 files would be run [...]

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I can’t believe I’m the only person experiencing this, but I haven’t found *any* mention of it in the 20 billion + documents google has indexed.
As I wrote earlier, my wife recently got a new Mac – (NOTE – IT’S AN INTEL MAC!!!) – we’re now running OS X 10.4.6. We’re using the latest [...]

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I’ve had more than a passing interest in foreign languages over the years. I took the requisite Spanish in high school (4 years), including a summer abroad in Spain (hola la familia espinosa!). While I was never fluent in Spanish, I could passably read basic texts (newspapers, etc) and function overseas as a [...]

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