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Monthly Archive January, 2008

My Own Biases

Mark Mzyk January 7, 2008

If you read my blog with any regularity, you know that I’ve developed a regular series called PHP Insanity.  Three entries so far and counting. Raganwald’s latest post made me question the validity of this series.  Was I guilty of claiming that PHP violated the principle of least surprise, simple because I am not intimately [...]

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To Be This Good – DragonForce

Mark Mzyk January 5, 2008

I want to be this good – but not at playing the guitar, at coding. Link to the YouTube video, in case you’re using a feed and don’t see it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3H4liC2sWg

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PHP Insanity III

Mark Mzyk

The holidays are over, so that means it’s time for PHP to bring me back to reality by crushing my brain between my skull. Today’s segment is presented by the PHP function header(). If you’ve had any experience coding with PHP, you’ve probably seen the header function used in many difference places.  I certainly have.  [...]

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Technorati Claim Post

Mark Mzyk January 4, 2008

This post is exactly what the title says it is – because I just couldn’t degrade my privacy by actually giving Technorati my blog login credentials, but I felt I should perhaps put my this blog on Technorati. Call me old fashioned (for 24 years old), but I haven’t bought into the notion yet that [...]

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Google’s Code is God

Mark Mzyk

Jeff Jarvis recently posted a blog post provocatively titled Google is God. It provides lots of interesting stats on the search giant. Some of the stats given: Google controls 65.1% of all searches in the U.S. at the end of 2007 and 86% of all searches in the UK, according to measurement company Hitwise. Google [...]

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