My favorite joke today was the announcement from Mu Dynamics Research Labs that they’re moving away from NoSQL. It’s bad for startups!
Programming, especially with databases, used to be challenging. I remember having late night meetings about tables, normalization and migration and how best to represent the data we have for each packet capture. For a startup, these kinds of late night meetings are critical in establishing a bond amongst the engineers who are just learning to work with each other. NoSQL destroys this human aspect in a number of ways. more
I was (almost) worried about Xdebug no longer being free. I think this comment from Bertrand sums it up well:
Now THAT is a smart move. OSS is definitely not a way to make money. You should also definitely strengthen support for Solaris, as it being non-free again definitely means it could use a non-opensource XDebug. more
And of course, xkcd pwnd everyone today with their hardcore nerd cred:
Happy April Fools’ Day!
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on Apr 1st, 2010
@ 6:12 pm:
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Martin F
on Apr 1st, 2010
@ 6:49 pm:
The best part of XKCD was “make me a sandwich”. And then the sudo equivalent.
Brian DeShong
on Apr 1st, 2010
@ 6:53 pm:
On XKCD, don’t forget to try:
$ make me a sandwich
…and the superior:
$ sudo make me a sandwich
:)