I’d hire 5 programmers to finish PHP unicode support in 2 months
I’d hire 5 programmers to clean up the database drivers and fix some PDO problems within 4 months, so also PHP could have a great DB interface like jdbc or ado
I’d hire 2 programmers to add a full abstraction layer to Zend_DB
I’d drop the [...]
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speed: try using Google spreadsheet, it’s simply impossible. On Windows it works smoothly.
integration: try having to change your proxy settings times a day… FireFox can’t read proxy info from GNOME settings
UI: Save/Open dialogs are not the native GTK ones
crashes: hey where’s my firefox? it’s gone, without telling me anything… and this happens 3-4 times a [...]
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Many blogs talked about that in the latest 2 days, while a was taking a break, but I can’t stop myself for writing a headline about this news from ars technica.
I hope that this unification idea will go on and complete successfully, it should happen for many other projects, I also hope that this will [...]
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It’s been a long time since the previous release, we worked on many things but only a few of them are visible to the end user. An highlight of the new release:
most of the back-end was rewritten to achieve better flexibility for power users (and every task was separated in a single script)
support for [...]
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When I saw that yesterday… I had to take a picture
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While we all are waiting for some real news about PHP6… I found a funny bug in PHP5.2.
As you all know PHP5 does not support unicode natively, thus you’ve to use the mbstring module and let the module overload all the functions dealing, doing this will allow you (example) to substring a text without [...]
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function setParameter( $c ) { $this->parameter = $n; }
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Ubuntu trademark is clear, and the iloveubuntu.com website (intentionally not linked) is violating it, hope Canonical will make that great joke stop.
UPDATE: this post would be a provocation, ’cause you know I’m a bit sceptic about free software and trademarks. I also know about ie7.com and many others, same story here and there. [...]
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Every member of the Italian parliament can now ask to replace his Windows workstation with a Linux one. Many people say that this is a revolution but I can’t completely agree. Thinking to the medium age of the members and their familiarity with the PC, how many of them will ask for Linux?
A prevision? [...]
While the orbo machine demonstration has been postponed again (and I’m going to postpone also my comments about the machine), I’d like to point out some other interesting projects:
Massive Yet Tiny Engine
hydro-sonic pump
and the best Italian website/forum about the MEG (Motionless Electromagnetic Generator) and free energy.
…google for more info…
hey, remember I’m not a physicist [...]
