Jahr: 2009

Paul Graham – Cities and Ambition: „One of the exhilarating things about coming back to Cambridge every spring is walking through the streets at dusk, when you can see into the houses. When you walk through Palo Alto in the evening, you see nothing but the blue glow of TVs. In Cambridge you see shelves…

Christopher Jones – PHP OCI8 Signal Handling and –enable-sigchild: „Only if you see defunct „zombie“ Oracle server processes then start PHP/Apache with the Oracle Net option BEQUEATH_DETACH=YES in your sqlnet.ora, or, to keep the setting specific to PHP, set your environment starting Apache. […] You should never need to configure PHP with –enable-sigchild or set…

Paul Graham – Lies We Tell Kids: „Whenever we lie to kids to protect them, we’re usually also lying to keep the peace. One consequence of this sort of calming lie is that we grow up thinking horrible things are normal. It’s hard for us to feel a sense of urgency as adults over something…

Joel Spolsky – How to be a program manager: „The number one mistake most companies make is having the manager of the programmers writing the specs and designing the product. This is a mistake because the design does not get a fair trial, and is not born out of conflict and debate, so it’s not…

Clay Shirky – Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable: „It makes increasingly less sense even to talk about a publishing industry, because the core problem publishing solves — the incredible difficulty, complexity, and expense of making something available to the public — has stopped being a problem. […] The competition-deflecting effects of printing cost got destroyed…

Eric Ries – Why PHP won: „Everything is request-oriented, short-lived, and stateless. A PHP script is like an object itself, encapsulating a bit of functionality behind an interface defined by HTTP. It’s one of the most effective paradigms for software devlopment in history. The platforms that win on the web are those that mirror its…

Wolfgang Michal – Keine Rente für Wallraff!: „Arme & Arbeiter kommen in den Medien nur vor, wenn man sie denunzieren kann (Hartz-IV-Schlampen, Kinderverwahrloser, Bildungsdeppen). Für etwas stehen, etwas riskieren, ein Thema durchsetzen, das ist nicht das Ding der jungen Reporter. Sie wollen bloß unterhalten. Opa Wallraff wird’s schon richten.“

Extracts from the book The UNIX Philosophy by Mike Gancarz – The Three Systems of Man: „The third system appears after people become disenchanted with their second system. The Third System is: often built by people who have been „burned“ by the second system often given a name change to disassociate it with the original…

Paul Graham – Why TV Lost: „The TV networks already seem, grudgingly, to see where things are going, and have responded by putting their stuff, grudgingly, online. But they’re still dragging their heels. They still seem to wish people would watch shows on TV instead, just as newspapers that put their stories online still seem…

Simon Wardley at O’Reilly Radar – Karmic Koalas Love Eucalyptus: „Rule 2: I want to easily migrate the service from my infrastructure to a cloud provider and vice versa with a few clicks of a button.“