Karsten Wagner lays out some important definitions about typing that you should know, even if only so you don’t get confused while reading the dynamic vs. static typing wars. He then expounds on why he prefers static typing in a second post. Ultimately, I don’t agree with his preference for static typing, or even most [...]

Not much to say today.  Time has gotten the better of me, but I do have some various Erlang links to pass on. Exploring Erlang An excellent talk introducing Erlang.  I’m still working my way through it, but this, coupled with the Crosswalk, should help any user understand Erlang.  At the very least, the video [...]

Today’s insanity comes from PHP’s brain dead implementation of object orientation. PHP has the concept of static functions. This is certainly good, because it means you don’t always have to instantiate an object to get access to a function. However, there is also the bad. PHP allows you to call a function statically that isn’t [...]