Who is exerting themselves more: a person who runs a hundred miles or a person who drives a hundred miles? The “Status Quo” is set by society’s perception of what is commonly occurring. It is the status quo that businesses are being run, roads are being built, and people go about their lives. But, 10 years ago it was …
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I’m learning about dealing with PHP’s lack of multiple inheritance. It was really driving me up the wall. I did come up with a solution for multiple inheritance in PHP, but I’ll explain why I don’t recommend using it. Along the way I learned a lot about multiple inheritance vs. composition in PHP. I’ll do …
I’m about to comment on a blog post, but I need to be logged in. There’s a handy log in button that takes me to a new page where I fill out the log in form and click submit. It takes me to a Thank You page, and now I expect to get back to …
I took a children’s literature class in my second year of University. It wasn’t my favourite class. However, our midterm was to write either a short children’s story or yet another boring essay. I asked my children’s lit prof if I could, instead, write an epic poem. Epic as in: “An epic (from the Ancient …
Here’s a neat trick to never forget your password, while keeping it secure, that I heard about from somewhere on the interwebs a while ago, probably lifehacker. It’s really very simple. You have a standard, secure password and you add a site-based string to it. So, say my standard password is: B[u3Cab[3 That’s pretty secure. …