Today I happened to be looking into random number generators in PHP (and discovering they aren’t very good).  In my quest I discovered two random number algorithms I didn’t know about.  Not that I know a lot about random number algorithms, but these two seemed interesting and worth looking at, even if I’ll never need [...]

Eric Sink has an interesting blog post about an experience he went through in his career where his manager showed incredible trust in him and everything turned out well.  It’s a story I wish more managers would read, but those who are likely to discover it have already learned the lesson and those who could [...]

I’ll keep this insanity short and sweet. In PHP, if you have a define that you forget to actually define, it will default to true, not false. Why is this?  Because in evaluating the define, if PHP cannot find anything else to evaluate it to, it will evaluate it to a string literal, which always [...]