Today was a bad PHP day, a very bad PHP day. Now all of the below is known by seasoned PHP coders already, you learn to live with it, however it does make for a good anectode, rarely does PHP’s crappier aspects converge in such a profound way to completely screw you up for hours on end.... Read More
For the record, I refer to the people known below as “the guys” in an unfavorable manner, and to be fair it’s not just their fault. Lack of communication between us and them and whatever else it is I don’t know has resulted in them appearing to be completely off the charts on the C-axis, and we’re not talking the collaborator end here… At the time the below conversation took place I hadn’t really reflected much on the matter though and put more blame on them than they deserve.... Read More
I really like Ubuntu with apt-get and synaptic to manage and install software, the total freedom to customize and yadayada you’ve all heard it before. However, sometimes the experience is not so pleasant, crazy actually, the first incident happened in the very beginning of my Ubuntu usage about 2 years ago. The culprit then was Beryl (now Compiz Fusion). After installing Beryl on my Nvidia powered desktop machine at home it started to randomly freeze the living shit out of it in a completely random way. It’s a total horror to have the coolest windowing in the world and it isn’t working, so close but yet so far away! That was the first time I realized I was feeling something I had never felt before as a Windows user, or in this context for that matter, envy. ... Read More
A lot of the giants have changed focus or lost whatever it was I liked from the beginning. ... Read More
Yesterday I read an article in my reader, by DHH I think, it prompted me to take a look at the Basecamp homepage. I’ve never used Basecamp so I tried basecamp.com which was totally wrong, that in turn made me Google for “basecamp 37signals” which gave me the proper link to basecamphq.com as the first result, the second result however leads to whybasecampsux.org. Intriguing, so I clicked it.... Read More
[4:16:18 PM] HS says: btw i managed to install the affiliate thing on my laptop and the data looks ok but i cant use it, i cant login in the admin backend, it just reloads the login screen without any error messages or anything, do you know if the admin backend is finished?... Read More
Why oh why do people make lists like this, it seems like our dear Reinhold just had to cram 40 things in there. ... Read More