One of my co-workers wrote up this gem on why PHP sucks. I don't agree with his points (having a "development server" isn't an important or even particularly useful feature of a framework, much less a language; prepared statements aren't the pinnacle of SQL), but he does do a good job of showing off some of PHP's more spectacular failings.
I'm naming all of my PHP functions __lambda_object now.
(yes; I do appreciate the irony of linking to his post from a formerly PHP site)
Storage is cheap, or so we're told. Amazon will sell me storage for $0.055/GB/month in “the cloud”; 3.5" hard drives are hovering around $0.06/GB. However, my laptop has a little 250GB SATA drive that is (a) slow and (b) getting full. So I desire to replace it with a fast little SSD. But that raises the question of what to do with my stuff. I'm asking you, Internet. Details below the fold.
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So, you might have heard about Amazon's
new Kindles. They're kind of a big thing. There's even talk that
Jeff Bezos is the New Steve Jobs
, which is kind of silly, but
serves to underscore the point that Amazon is big news these days.
Anyway, you might also remember from an earlier post of mine that I
have a Kindle 2. Well, when I saw the new Kindles, I couldn't resist. So
now I also have a Kindle 4 (non-touch). It's pretty awesome. Let's start
with some sexy comparison shots (flickr set):
The most stunning thing about the new Kindle …
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So,
I got one of the Internet-legendary $99 TouchPads (well,
$149 actually, but whatever). As some of you may know, I was an
enormous Palm fanboy during the 90's. So it was pretty inevitable that I
would end up purchasing one of their WebOS products, even though there's
not a lot in common between this and Jeff Hawkins' wooden cutout Palm Pilot.
Anyhow, this is probably going to be the nerdiest review of
the TouchPad posted on the Internet. It mostly is concerned with
keyboard mappings. Enjoy!
If you've read any kind of tech news in the last few
days, you might've noticed that Mac OS X 10.7 Lion is out. I wasn't
going to upgrade for a while, but then it launched and I did. So I've
been using Lion for a few days now, and I thought I'd join the endless
ranks of people on the Internet talking about Apple's latest big cat.
I'm not really going to be much competition for the real tech writers,
so if you want to learn nearly everything about Lion, I recommend making
a pot of tea and sitting down to John Siracusa's latest tome.
Otherwise, read on to see what I think of the new features.
I have a VM slice that I use to run DNS, a bzflag server, and a few other incidental things. This is what I see on it right now:
% uptime
12:05:13 up 450 days, 15:17, 5 users, load average: 1.93, 1.35, 0.60
It's currently running Debian lenny, but I decided that I wanted to get with the times and upgrade it to squeeze. As expected the upgrade was fairly painless (took me a bit to figure out that booting by label was broken and I needed to boot by disk UUID), but it's kind …
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