No T-Shirt For You!
The mind boggles. Well, at least mine does. The recent decision from the Drupal Association is that if you're not either a member or a volunteer at the Vienna Drupalcon, no t-shirt for you!
Drupal 7 and MySQL sockets
I recently switched from a mysql.com implementation of MySQL to MacPorts on my local, and the Drupal sites would no longer load.
Picking the Lock in PHP When you Don't Have a Key
There are times when you create an array based on a stream of incoming data, and in doing so, are blissfully (or not) ignorant of the keys.
(W-2) Freelancing - Be careful how you cast!
It is becoming ever more popular for agencies to insist on your being paid as a W-2 rather than a 1099. Does it matter? Oh, yeah!
Almost made the Plunge
Last night I almost took the plunge into Linux...almost.
I remember decades ago sitting at a screen next to one of the masters of Unix, who was munging a device driver or some such, and him telling me that there were two types of coders, and those that didn't habla grep, awk and all of the other caveman-like utterances used in that world were developers of the 'other' type.