edtechre

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1. 31.▲
   by edtechre 15y ago

   Scheduling backups and setting up DNS is certainly easier on Rackspace.
2. 32.▲
   by edtechre 15y ago

   Scary. I actually remember those TV segments from my childhood. 0_0 And I'm feeling better that I decided to go with Rackspace instead of EC2.
3. 33.▲
   by edtechre 15y ago

   Yeah but something that long is best left to the meta description, not the title.
4. 34.▲
   by edtechre 15y ago

   Because it's all abstracted away. B-trees are used in the underlying implementations of RDBMS. Other data stores such as MongoDB, Memcached, and Redis use hash tables. Arrays, linked lists, and dictionaries are usually abstracted away by
5. 35.▲
   by edtechre 15y ago

   Does anyone have any good resources for http://www.andengine.org/ ? Or does anyone know of another good 2D game engine for Android?
6. 36.▲
   by edtechre 15y ago

   Thanks for the info. I do think the default should have been pass by reference though, like with objects since PHP5.
7. 37.▲
   by edtechre 15y ago

   I could be wrong about the inefficiency, maybe arrays in PHP are implemented as "copy on write". But seeing how PHP is such a mess of a language, I somehow doubt it...
8. 38.▲
   by edtechre 15y ago

   I actually agree here. CI is barely a framework. When I used it, I found myself writing a bunch of custom code to handle encapsulating view logic like widgets, decorators, etc. Plus, plenty of other code to handle form validation etc. O
9. 39.▲
   by edtechre 15y ago

   If you don't want to admin a Linux box (which really doesn't take much), you can use Python or even Java on App Engine for free, if just to test them out.
10. 40.▲
    by edtechre 15y ago

    I write way more PHP than Python. But dicts are MUCH better in Python. In fact, dict keys can be any data type you choose, like a true hash table in other languages like Java (e.g. HashMap).
11. 41.▲
    by edtechre 15y ago

    Not to mention a couple of other things I hate about PHP arrays: 1) They don't extend stdClass so they aren't technically objects-- they're a different data type completely (WTF?) 2) Arrays are passed by value and not reference by default.
12. 42.▲
    by edtechre 15y ago

    Thanks for writing this. I've been taking a "break" and am finishing up work on my own project. I got one of these emails from a Google recruiter last week. I had applied to Google back in 2009, but chickened and canceled the interview aft
13. 43.▲
    by edtechre 15y ago

    Also, this statement is rubbish: "Unit Testing While we don’t practice Test-Driven-Development, we do have unit tests in place. PHP does not provide an elegant test library, so we built our own (soon-to-be open-sourced.)" Really? You've ne
14. 44.▲
    by edtechre 15y ago

    I absolutely agree, this article was a waste of time. His use of technology wasn't awe-inspiring either. He comes off as someone who is unfamiliar with PHP instead of an experienced user with a bone to pick. I've worked in Java, PHP and