Monthly Archives: July 2008

PHP best practice: always wrap conditional statement in closing brackets

By Sid | July 22, 2008

This has caught me today, so I thought I’d write this down here so it’d stuck in my head.
Check out this code:

$p = ‘abcd’.($b)?‘e’:‘f’;

What would $p be if $b is true and what would it be if $b is false?

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My first taste of Flock Web Browser

By Sid | July 15, 2008

I just tried this new web browser on the block called ‘Flock‘ - the social web browser. To me, it looks and smells too much like Mozilla Firefox with custom theme and collection of plugins that integrate popular services like GMail, Facebook, Youtube, Yahoo, Flickr, etc.
According to Wikipedia, Flock(web browser) has received about $30M funding. […]

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My oil price conspiracy theory

By Sid | July 14, 2008

I think the expensive oil price has to do with Athabasca Oil Sands in Canada, the largest oil deposit second only to Saudi Arabia. The upside (to the West) is that Canada is a Western country, the downside? It is expensive to extract because the oil is in the sand and they have to separate […]

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Firefox Guinness World Record for the most downloaded software in 24 hours with 8,002,530 downloads

By Sid | July 3, 2008

I received the official announcement email today that Firefox did set the Guinness World Record for the most software downloads in 24 hours.
a Guinness World Record for the most software downloads in 24 hours … 8,002,530 downloads.
The most spectacular software release in history. Congratulation Firefox!

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