Category: Technology
Seldo.Com Blog – PHP needs to die. What will replace it?
I use PHP for my day job every day and will probably still be using it years from now, but there are times I wish the language itself was more modern.
NYTimes.com – Bank of America Explains Web Site Problems
Bank of America, we weren’t hacked instead we are just incompetent.
Apple – Remembering Steve Jobs
An amazing person who built some amazing companies.
Macworld – The App Culture
This was the largest fear with Lion, and Apple has yet to respond in a way that alleviates people’s fears for such apps that need a higher level of access that it appears that Apple will allow.
Ars Technica – Verizon sues to halt FCC’s net neutrality rules
How about the uncertainty for businesses to know if next month they’ll have to pay fees to not have their sites arbitrarily slowed down?
Zach Holman – Scaling GitHub’s Employees
Pretty cool read, the focus is on automating tasks so new employees don’t need to know a lot to get started and working, having teams that focus primarily on one single part of GitHub and reducing complexity.
Computerworld – Chrome poised to take No. 2 browser spot from Firefox
Can’t say I’m that shocked Google has been doing really awesome work with Chrome.
gdgt – Oh, one more thing about the Amazon tablet: the second, better version is coming very soon
I think I’ll hold off on Gen1 of the Kindle Tablet, if Gen2 is going to be coming out that soon.
NPR – OnStar Hits Reverse: It Won’t Keep Collecting Data From Old Customers
OnStar however still hasn’t changed it’s mind about selling data it collects from current customers at some point.
Vivek Haldar – Size is the best predictor of code quality
Essentially length of code tied with code metrics becomes a reasonable predictor of bugs.