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Monthly Archives: March 2008

spring?

Monday, March 24, 2008

Waiting, hoping for spring to come! Meanwhile we’ve got the first signs of it here: the melting snow giving us back everything we, uh, loaned it all winter long. Bring on the singing birds and the daffodils!

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commandments, part II

Saturday, March 22, 2008

OK more commandments. In no particular order: Thou shalt not put database connect() statements inside a loop. For real people! If you have a loop on a page, and it has a connect statement inside it, and you use pconnect() (we’re talking PHP, for what it’s worth), you should not disconnect after every iteration of [...]

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now, people

Saturday, March 15, 2008

I hate to rag on people for not having technical skill or knowledge, but when your title is “Senior Technical Lead for Content Management” you don’t get a free pass. And when you also happen to be a professional, pinkie-ring wearing engineer, that raises my expectations too. I expect that you understand some basics about [...]

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