Trying to saddle a software product with DRM/copy protection that is just going to piss off your customers doesn’t make you rich. Intuit learned this lesson the hard way. When Intuit launched the copy-control program, it predicted that revenue would increase, since customers who had previously purchased only one TurboTax program would have to buy […]
I get the vibe that RSS is still a little too new for the powers that be to accept. Once you start using it however, RSS is one of those things that you’d come to miss REAL quick. I bet one year from now, most people will be finding interesting content from a website’s feed
Two and a half years ago, when I first dove into web development, I wasn’t very familiar with regular expressions. They certainly didn’t look regular to me, looked more like someone’s keyboard exploded. Now, having figured out a thing or two about them, I came across the following lines: $pos = strpos ( $this->user->privs, ‘del’);
Currently, the only thing left for us DC United fans is to remember the good old years. I’ll be at RFK stadium tonight to wish a fond farewell to John Harkes, one of my favorite player for DCU and the USA.
Interesting article forwarded to me by my cousin from the WSJ on Coca Eradication failing in Bolivia. Unfortunately you need a subscription to view it online but you can get a lot of info from Google News too. And from Erythroxylum: The Coca Plant The Andean culture and the coca plant have thrived for centuries.
PHP Architect magazine has a more detailed response to Microsoft’s comparison of PHP and .NET . Good to see most of the points I had made earlier written up here.
Thanks to Google Groups and the atitvout project, I got my MAME Box outputting the display signal through the tvout. It didn’t work until I changed my X-Free config file to use the Vesa VBE driver instead of the ati driver.
Some of you fine readers may wonder why I’m rolling my own instead of going with a pre-exisiting package. It’s mostly a learning excercise and so I can practice new programming techniques (thanks php patterns) behind the scenes. This site is a convenient excuse and by-product Anyway, specifically I’ve finally gotten the administration scripts I
The flaw, in Passport’s password recovery mechanism, could have allowed an attacker to change the password on any account to which the username is known. The simplicity of the attack method and the high value of the data frequently stored in Passport accounts–names, addresses, birthdates and credit card numbers–combined to make the vulnerability critical.
However, MS conveniently limits the scope of PHP to the single PHP download and not to the overall PHP community. The overall point I got from the MS arguments is ASP.NET: we give you more in the base distribution. Whereas for PHP you’d have to know where to look for good 3rd party classes and