[…] a good programmer cultivates the virtue of laziness. (But not just any laziness: you must be aggressively, proactively lazy!) — Chris Pine, dealing with the DRY rule
Category: IT & Technology
Quote of the Day
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. — Richard Cook, read on FSM
Quote of the Day
[…] as we all know, premature optimization is the root of all evil. — from a cocoa-dev email amen!
Windows Vista Bonus
Windows Vista demand is so strong that Dell is offering a Windows Vista Bonus to its customers. What is it? It’s the option to have Windows XP pre-installed, of course! 🙂
Who’s linking to your site?
If you’re using LogMiner to analyse your Apache/IIS logs, here’s an easy recipe to be notified of sites that send visitors your way. First, let’s define a Pg/PLSQL function to extract the new referrers: 123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536373839404142434445464748CREATE TYPE new_referrer AS ( site_id int8, site_name text, …