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“0″ is not Empty

Friday, August 24th, 2007

PHP offers a nifty thing called “silent type conversion” which allows data of different types to be easily compared with data of different types. This is cool because I can say that the integer 1 and the boolean true can be evaluated to be the same thing. This becomes interesting when the concept of “emptiness” […]

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Come See Me Talk this Saturday

Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007

I will be giving a talk on Flex and PHP development for my PHP user group this Saturday. If anyone is interested, please feel free to show up. This talk will be a very light one with the goal of providing a solid overview of the framework and how to build applications. And of course, […]

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Yahoo! Photos is No More

Tuesday, August 21st, 2007

Just a moment ago, I received the following note from Yahoo! saying that Yahoo! Photos is closing its doors for good. Although I find it odd that I’m receiving this message (I’ve never used the service before), I am pleased to see it. I always found it strange that Yahoo! would continue Photos even after […]

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Please, hold the bacn…

Tuesday, August 21st, 2007

It seems as if yet another buzzword has slipped into the already overflowing bucket of marketable slop that pollutes my beloved industry.
“Bacn” is a word for all of the semi-solicited email you receive from the various accounts you hold with online companies and services. Unlink spam, it is legitimate email sent specifically to you; but […]

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