cool things

When people ask why PHP doesn’t have this or that cool feature which allows to do some tricky mind-bending function and requires a dozen pages of manual to describe it, I find this quote from Brian W.

Kernighan is very appropriate:

Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.

Handle With Linux: "Linux is cool, Linux users know that much. There are a lot of cool things Linux, and to kick off, here is one of them: A linux beer machine."

It's the end of the year and that means it's time to either make predictions for the coming year or review the highlights from the past year.

This article takes a look at the cool things that happened around storage in the past year and perhaps hints at some things in the coming year.

TuxRadar: "There are lots of cool things in Moblin, but Clutter is our #1 most favourite thing of all. Why? If its OpenGL-accelerated, object-oriented, GTK-integrated API isn't enough to convince you, then perhaps its powerful animation framework, easy texture manipulation, and lightning-fast object picking system might."

On the CatsWhoCode.com blog there's a new post looking at a few cool things (ten, to be precise) you can do with the cURL extension in PHP.

New to cURL?

If yes, check out the following articles to learn the purposes and basics of cURL/libcurl. [...] Please note that some of the techniques shown here can be used for "blackhat" methods.

The goal of this article is only educationnal, please do not use any of the snippets below for illegal stuff.

Their ten cool things incldue:

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In a new post to his blog Brandon Savage takes a look at five different functions for working with arrays you can do some pretty cool things with:

We’ve seen the multitouch capabilities of the iPhone; we’ve seen a simil

Dan Walsh: "This allows administrators to take untrusted content, run it through one or more filters, and be able to trust that the content can't cause the filter programs to do evil things.

As soon as I released it, I received email asking if It could be used to sandbox Acroread, and I had to say "Sorry, it can't do that"."