The expression (expr1) ? (expr2) : (expr3) evaluates to expr2 if expr1 evaluates to TRUE, and expr3 if expr1 evaluates to FALSE. Since PHP 5.3, it is possible to leave out the middle part of the ternary operator. Expression expr1 ?: expr3 returns expr1 if expr1 evaluates to TRUE, and expr3 otherwise. - PHP Comparison Operators
I am altering the oatmeal. Pray I don’t alter it further. - Darth Vader
Evangelicals have identified their movement with the culture war and with political conservatism. This will prove to be a very costly mistake. Evangelicals will increasingly be seen as a threat to cultural progress. Public leaders will consider us bad for America, bad for education, bad for children, and bad for society.
The evangelical investment in moral, social, and political issues has depleted our resources and exposed our weaknesses. Being against gay marriage and being rhetorically pro-life will not make up for the fact that massive majorities of Evangelicals can’t articulate the Gospel with any coherence. We fell for the trap of believing in a cause more than a faith.
- The coming evangelical collapse
I think the key to MySQL’s popularity has been its ease of use (time to get started with it). Yes PostgreSQL now has native Windows support, but it’s years later. By that time MySQL had reached critical mass, and thus the point of who is “better” becomes moot. At that stage you use MySQL because everybody else does, and the number of people having worked with it is huge. This is, in many respects, very similar to the dominance of Windows. It may suck in many ways, but it has critical mass. The argument “Linux is better” bears no relevance to the average user. - Why is MySQL more popular than PostgreSQL?
PostgreSQL is a relational database management system (RDBMS). That means it is a system for managing data stored in relations. Relation is essentially a mathematical term for table. - PostgreSQL Concepts
Google knows what we are looking for, where we are from, what we are interested in, what we’re blogging about, what we are reading, what we advertise, what we click on, what our hobbies are, and so on. Google
is our Big Brother. - One day without Google
I speak proudly of the fact that I am a Jesus follower, and will share bits and pieces of my spiritual journey throughout the existence of my website. - Brian Gardner
I don’t know what I am missing, but the facebook blog seems to be overflowing with hateful speech, “spam sucks” ASCII art, and other bizarre messages. I feel like I might be mugged just for reading the posts. - The Facebook Blog
We will soon be joining the rest of the world in discovering that we can’t legislate even decent moral laws, etc. and no longer have a say in our hi-jacked government. -
Jimmy
The administration of US President Barack Obama moved to rescind a rule that would allow health care workers to deny medical care such as birth control or abortion to patients if it clashes with their morals. - Obama moves to block abortion ‘refusal’ rule
I posted some thoughts to twitter last night about how much the xCode window management drives me insane. What I got back was a huge reaction of “it’s perfect” and “this is how OSX works” Suddenly I was wondering, am I just insane for thinking the window management is absolutely horrible? No, no. I’m not. It’s horrible. Just because Apple built it, does not make it perfect. - Do people really like the window management in xCode?
SQLite does not need to be “installed” before it is used. There is no “setup” procedure. There is no server process that needs to be started, stopped, or configured. There is no need for an administrator to create a new database instance or assign access permissions to users. SQLite uses no configuration files. Nothing needs to be done to tell the system that SQLite is running. No actions are required to recover after a system crash or power failure. There is nothing to troubleshoot. SQLite just works. - Distinctive Features Of SQLite
Sigh… I’m going to end up taking the Google approach, buying a bunch of junk $40 computers and clustering them and seeing how much I can get them to do. It’s hard being a geek. - Rick Morgan
At a certain point “patents” and “intellectual rights” protection goes way too far. Someday I’ve gonna get sued for copying down notes in the classroom. - Sony, Nintendo and Nokia sued for making gaming devices that do stuff
Each player gets several million things. What you do with a thing is to zark it. Everybody takes turns zarking. - The Thing King
Many corporations turn an inherently rewarding experience into something people just barely stomach in exchange for a paycheck. - Lucky to be a Programmer
I used your code on a bunch of videos on my site. I added “rel=0” at the end of the line. Usually when you add this it stops you tube displaying a slide show of other related videos (just get a replay button). - Get rid of those YouTube EMBED tags
You may think of video files as “AVI files” or “MP4 files.” In reality, “AVI” and “MP4″ are just container formats. Just like a ZIP file can contain any sort of file within it, video container formats only define how to store things within them, not what kinds of data are stored. - Introduction to video encoding, container formats
Flash Player can import data through networking APIs and FlashVars. A common mistake that developers make is to assume that the only way that a SWF will accept FlashVar data is through the FlashVars param tag within an object tag. SWF files that accept FlashVars will actually read in data through GET params as well. - Creating more secure SWF web applications
Today I tried to build a house. After 47 minutes of trying really hard with all these building codes, earthquake “protection” braces and battling complicated ideas like reinforced concrete I gave up and just used cardboard. I mean, the end result is the same — so why even bother? - Just give up and use cardboard
