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!