Having a good debugger and error reporting can mean the difference between spending an hour hunting down the line of code causing bug and killing it quickly. For PHP, xdebug is my preferred debugger (are there others?),. Thanks to this link on debuggable.com, I was able to find a precompiled binary for OS X. Setting […]
There’s a lot of good insight in this blog post from the creator of the Views module for Drupal. I’m a big fan of the module, and when I’ve had to dive into the code behind it, I’ve come away pretty impressed. That’s pretty rare for a Drupal module, IMNSHO. Also, if you don’t understand
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I’ve been finding that maintaining a fairly accurate todo list has helped me concentrate on finishing tasks and avoiding “multi-tasking”. I really like Hiveminder, an online todo list manager. It’s really easy to enter tasks – you can just type something like “Post article about multitasking on bloc [due Wednesday][blog]” to create an item that
On Windows and Linux, Pidgin is my IM client of choice. On Mac I use Adium, which is sort of related to it since they share some common libraries under the hood, even though there is a Pidgin client for OS X. I’m optimistic that the latest release might make it easier to use voice
Posted since we were debating this weekend after giving Nicholas a little ice cream after 8 p.m. I figure consumer reports is pretty trustworthy, no? Sugar makes children hyperactive—and other medical myths: Consumer Reports Health Blog More than a dozen good-quality studies have failed to find any link between sugar in children’s diets and hyperactive
Who is Peter Wilt, you might ask? Probably one of the more successful soccer executives in the U.S.A. He managed the Chicago Fire for eight years and is regarded as a very fan friendly and intelligent. Over on Pitch Invasion, he shares his Soccer Management Philosophy. His ideas for how to run the front office
How can this be? My own adidas related spending is up 350% since Dec 12th of 2008. Clearly its not enough. Also, it really annoys me when companies complain that profits are down. Maybe Adidas should take a page out of Valve’s pricing playbook. BBC NEWS | Business | Adidas sees profits plunge by 95%