Prima Aprilis!
My favorite joke today was the announcement from Mu Dynamics Research Labs that they're moving away from NoSQL. It's bad for startups!
Programming, especially with databases, used to be challenging. I remember having late night meetings about tables, normalization and migration and how best to represent the data we have for each packet capture. For a startup, these kinds of late night meetings are critical in establishing a bond amongst the engineers who are just learning to work with each other. NoSQL destroys this human aspect in a number of ways. more
I was (almost) worried about Xdebug no longer being free. I think this comment from Bertrand sums it up well:
Now THAT is a smart move. OSS is definitely not a way to make money. You should also definitely strengthen support for Solaris, as it being non-free again definitely means it could use a non-opensource XDebug. more
And of course, xkcd pwnd everyone today with their hardcore nerd cred:
Happy April Fools' Day!
Comments (2)
2010-04-01 18:49:44 Martin F said:
The best part of XKCD was "make me a sandwich". And then the sudo equivalent.
2010-04-01 18:53:35 Brian DeShong said:
On XKCD, don't forget to try: $ make me a sandwich ...and the superior: $ sudo make me a sandwich :)