Programming Leftovers
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An Internet of PHP
PHP is big. The trolls can proclaim its all-but-certain “death” until the cows come home, but no amount of heckling changes that the Internet runs on PHP. The evidence is overwhelming. What follows is a loosely organised collection of precisely that evidence.
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Forget efficiency
Should we really forget efficiency? No. But we should postpone focusing on efficiency until we are effective.
Basically, the previous sentence is the summary of this blog post and maybe it sounds obvious at first reading. But based on my experiences it is not. The biggest problem we have (not only) in IT these days is a lack of effectiveness. And what do we do to solve this problem? We attempt to improve our efficiency – amplifying our problems instead of solving any of them.
I mentioned this issue several times in previous posts, usually in the context of other topics. Taking a few steps back, I realize this is probably the root cause for many, if not most problems we face in IT today (and in many other places). Therefore, I decided to dedicate a whole post to this issue.
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Incrementing and decrementing numeric variables in bash
There are quite a few ways to increment and decrement numeric variables in bash. This post examines the many ways you can do this.