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Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard: My upgrade experience

Posted by Chris Renner on August 31, 2009

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My Snow Leopard disk arrived Friday, and I promptly began upgrading my three Macs (A 2008 Mac Pro and early 2008 MacBook Pro at work, and a 2008 Mac Pro at home).
I’ve read very few horror stories so far about folks and their upgrades.  I had no issues whatsoever.  Install took about 1 hour for [...]

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40% of Twitter is “pointless babble”

Posted by Chris Renner on August 17, 2009

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Ironically, this post would make a much more appropriate tweet, but nontheless I thought it worth posting here. Pear Analytics has audited Twitter content and found that only about 1 in 10 message has any real value, and as much as 40% of tweets are “pointless babble”. For the curious, that category includes [...]

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Samuel Folkes: 17 PHP Practices That Should Be Banished Forever

Posted by Chris Renner on August 6, 2009

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Samuel Folkes has posted a great article about bad PHP programming habits.  In his article, titled 17 PHP Practices That Should Be Banned Forever, Folkes describes 17 specific behaviors which can lead to bad code, security holes, or both.
Not all of the 17 items are PHP-specific. Not properly commenting your code is of course a [...]

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