ShareI’ve stayed silent on the iPhone 4 antenna “debacle”, and I frankly think that although there is a legitimate issue at the heart, it has been overblown by a media eager to find a chink in Mr. Jobs’ armor.
Before I get too far into this let me just say I’ve become quite the Apple fan [...]
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iPhone 4 3G Reception Testing with iOS 4.0.1
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Never Use $_GET Again
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ShareMatt Butcher’s new blog entry, Never Use $_GET Again, discusses using the filter_input function that is available in php 5.2+ to remedy concerns about input validation. Its an elegantly simple approach that solves a busload of problems. This is worth reading and I think is going to not only be worth implementing but also worth [...]
Lifehacker: Teach Yourself to How to Code
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ShareLifehacker continues to move up my list of favorite sites to visit on a daily basis. They recently ran a list of top how-to guides from 2009, and included among them is Programming 101: Teach Yourself How to Code.
PHP gets plenty of attention in the section about server-side scripting languages, althought I will note they [...]
New theme for my blog…
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ShareI’ve been paying more attention to web design lately. Why? Well I’m definitely not morphing into a designer–I don’t have the DNA for it–but rather because design is relevant, even in an enterprise environment. As I have mentioned before, the interface matters to the end user–perhaps moreso than all the backend code you’ve spent hours [...]
Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard: My upgrade experience
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ShareMy 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 [...]
BlueHarvest Fixes pesky ._DSstore and resource fork files
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ShareFor those developing on a Mac in an otherwise non-Mac environment (Windows or Linux desktops and/or servers), you’ve undoubtedly run into the dreaded ._DSstore files. These are resource files OS X creates for directories, and when connecting to a remote file system of another flavor, OS X will leave behind these files and cause you [...]
