December 2011
4 posts
Back from the smoke break
Earlier this year I wrote “Text Editor Intervention,” in which I compared TextMate’s author to a dad who said he was going out for a smoke break five years ago and never came back, and suggested that people who were increasingly distressed about TextMate’s future should stick with TextMate as long as they felt practical, then switch to one of three other editors: BBEdit,...
PHP Redux
Pardon the light (i.e., mostly non-existent) blogging for this last half of December.
I wasn’t quite expecting the “PHP is not an acceptable COBOL” post to be picked up the way it was. It circulated parts of the PHP community and, apparently, parts of the .NET community.
Most of the comments were interesting and, even when not agreeing with my admittedly dismal conclusion,...
PHP is not an acceptable COBOL
(See a followup posted December 20th.)
You may or may not know I’m an (underemployed) web programmer. I’m mostly “back end,” which means I mostly program the server, not Javascript or Flash. Over the last year “front end” has become very hot—if you merely know what AJAX stands for, you may get interviews for $100K+ positions—so I’d be better...
Paypal: feel the love
You’ve probably read about (or even felt) the anger over Paypal “stealing money” from Regretsy, which is only the latest in a series of things they’ve done that have pissed the Internet off. I suspect, given the attention this is getting, they’ll fix this. (Unlike them cutting off Wikileaks, this time Paypal is as coming as close to stealing from orphans before...