real world

David Van Couvering has posted about some of his experience with the latest version of the NetBeans editor for some of his PHP and Javascript development work.

Voicemail is dead. Please tell everyone so they’ll stop using it. When I first started out in the real world in the mid-nineties voicemail was an important productivity tool.

But now an increasing number of people are just plain avoiding voicemail. It takes much longer to listen to a message than read it.

Linux Journal: "One of the biggest arguments used against Linux in grade school level education is that we aren't teaching kids to use the applications they'll use in the "real world".

As the Technology Director for a K-12 school district, I've heard that argument many times. After all these years, I still don't buy it.

Truthfully, to really give kids a well rounded education, we should expose them to as many different types of technology as we can."

One of the biggest arguments used against Linux in grade school level education is that we aren't teaching kids to use the applications they'll use in the "real world".

As the Technology Director for a K-12 school district, I've heard that argument many times. After all these years, I still don't buy it.

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Back in 2003 people began realizing that the growth of various "virtual worlds" was going to raise certain questions about how real world laws applied to virtual worlds.

However, there's been little effort by the legal community to take a serious look at the question.

Some things still wonder me, after 10+ years of web-development. Todays wonder is here:

RFC2821 (SMTP) tells: The maximum total length of a text line including the <CRLF> is 1000 characters.

In real world, most MTAs default to 990 characters per-line, which means, that if you will try to dump longer line on them, they would split it by putting “!\n” after 990-th byte.

This is mostly harmless for plain-text, but can easily break html.