On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 11:34:57AM -0500, Peter da Silva wrote:
> Why in the name of all that's unholy do programs on Windows generally
> unpack or download files to a temporary location and then *copy*
> them to the final location, instead of at least *moving* them or
> (god forbid) downloading th
Why in the name of all that's unholy do programs on Windows generally
unpack or download files to a temporary location and then *copy*
them to the final location, instead of at least *moving* them or
(god forbid) downloading them to the right location in the first
place?
Even if they're worring ab
> [10] http://boston.conman.org/2007/12/18.1
Someone who thinks views are for wimps.
It was thus said that the Great Joshua Juran once stated:
> On Sep 29, 2008, at 7:39 PM, Sean Conner wrote:
>
> > -spc (Holding back the bile on a whole bunch of PHP hate ... )
>
> No, no, by all means bring it forth! :-D
Oh, you mean how modules in PHP applications are installed by modify
> > There is something I call the =93Chernobyl Design Pattern=94, where =
> you =20
> > take your worst bug, the ugliest part of your code, the part that =20
> > is so bad, so radioactive that no one can touch it without getting =20
> > killed, and you make it private and inaccessible, and put a ne
On Sep 29, 2008, at 8:24 PM, Peter da Silva wrote:
"WTF?" says I. "The SQL statments are pretty much SELECT * FROM
frob"
type queries. No joins. No multiple table selects, just pretty
straightforward SQL.
There's a reason I have lately come to write code like:
$emails search -c
> "WTF?" says I. "The SQL statments are pretty much SELECT * FROM frob"
> type queries. No joins. No multiple table selects, just pretty
> straightforward SQL.
There's a reason I have lately come to write code like:
$emails search -compare [list [list = listid $listid]] \
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On Sep 29, 2008, at 7:39 PM, Sean Conner wrote:
At work, I inherited some PHP application written for MySQL. My
boss
wants to use PostgreSQL. "It can't be that hard to convert it,"
says I.
"SQL is SQL, right?"
As long as entire subsystems are on the table, why not rewrite the
thing i
Tell me about it.
At work, I inherited some PHP application written for MySQL. My boss
wants to use PostgreSQL. "It can't be that hard to convert it," says I.
"SQL is SQL, right?"
Stop laughing back there, I'm trying to tell a story.
First off, the PHP code is littered with mysql_thi
