Always tough to line up all the places where text passes through or is stored. HT PHP Developer.org Character sets can be confusing at the best of times. This post aims to explain the potential problems and suggest solutions. How to Avoid Character Encoding Problems in PHP « James Cohen
China’s high speed rail was supposed to be a model for the US to follow. I hope this gives pause to the billions of dollars that the federal government wants to pour down this black hole. Liu’s legacy, in short, is a system that could drain China’s economic resources for years. So much for the
Printing in linux has always been a particular headache for me, and probably many users.There is a myriad of systems that have to talk to each other to get it to work. You have CUPS which takes care of making your computer talk to the printer, various packages like foomatic and ghostscript that you may
This post describes a small tweak to make to php lint checking via a git pre-commit hook. Using git hooks to check syntax errors – Tim Akinbo’s Blog
I like his description of Serenity parenting, it matches how we are trying to raise our two sons. I still think I should make a t-shirt that says “My kid’s gonna enjoy soccer wether he likes it or not.” But twin research has another far more amazing lesson: With a few exceptions, the effect of
Google’s approach to speeding up the web, explained by Kimsall below, is in stark contrast to Microsoft’s approach to trying to dominate the web 12 years ago. Google’s approach can cut pageload times about in half, and can really help large and complicated sites that make a lot of requests. There’s already a proof-of-concept SPDY
THOUGHTS Drupal Development and Deployment using Git | ruzee.com – Steffen Rusitschka
Jow Maller outlines a straightforward system for using git to manage code from development copies and branches through production. The fact that deployment to live is automated, but I’d be worried about broken or unreviewed code getting deployed unintentionally. I think the best way to prevent that is to have live be its own branch,
You would think something named “Domain Name Registration” would be boring service that the overwhelming majority of Internet users need not think about. However, GoDaddy thinks that may not be good for business, and their latest media blitz has caused me to rethink how I spend my money. I must confess I tolerated their titillating
Slate provides a levelheaded assessment about nuclear reactor risk and safety lessons from the crisis in Japan. I hope, once the situation is resolved, we can still look at nuclear power objectively in the USA. To head off the next nuclear accident, we need to rethink the parameters of plant design. Why do we build