http://patzorz.com/blog Anything could fall in . . . Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:08:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Children screaming. The sound of stomping on the floor above you. Multiple you tube videos going on at once. The sound of a person slurping a beverage. Other people playing Rock Band. I have witnessed all five today. http://patzorz.com/blog/2008/07/10/list-of-five-most-annoying-sounds/ PHP has some handy functions to handle operations that you want to have happen at the end of page processing.  Most people are aware of using destructors (__destruct) in object oriented code.  These are handy for saving data and closing references to external resources on script exit.  This mechanism is ... http://patzorz.com/blog/2008/05/19/php-gotcha-437/ I was talking to friend after an exam today.  He was talking about feeling the tinge of realizing that there are a lot of people he's never going to see again now that he's graduating (myself included probably).  He realized when another person left early after finishing the exam.  I ... http://patzorz.com/blog/2008/05/15/on-transitions/ Merlin Mann published a post on 43folders that affirms something I've thought for a long time now:  that email manages to bring out sociopathic behaviors in people.   I learned this fact being friends with school teachers.  In many school districts, teachers are given official email addresses, and parents are able ... http://patzorz.com/blog/2008/04/27/email-and-the-sociopath/ A commercial like this would certainly not work in the US, but surely no one in the world actually equates MS Office and getting laid. Found via Dvorak.org http://patzorz.com/blog/2008/04/25/you-want-officexp/ I decided after seeing how slow laptop can crawl, that it was time to upgrade the memory in it.  It's a Core Duo machine, and has been serving me faithfully for over a year now, but it only has one gig of memory in it.  For my work, there have ... http://patzorz.com/blog/2008/04/24/4gb-of-memory/ Why, go to the Double T of course. I went out with my mom for lunch today at the Double T on National Pike.  To my utter amazement there were a group of white supremacists who were on the way out, dressed in full "White Power" Neo-Nazi garb.  The one guy ... http://patzorz.com/blog/2008/04/19/what-do-white-supremacists-like-to-do-on-a-friday-afternoon/ Fellow Crusaders may find this amusing. Ever since posting a resume on Monster.com, I've been getting a lot of calls from recruiters for various technical related jobs in the Baltimore Area. This is the most recent. Baltimore AirCoil Without making anyone follow the link, here's the logo for the company: Fate maybe? http://patzorz.com/blog/2008/04/03/bac/ A project for class required me to write a function to scramble a string in JavaScript. Below is the output of my first test run, with the test string: "This is a string". I tried to post the code, but it didn't want to take in this template. http://patzorz.com/blog/2008/04/02/sometimes-i-think-the-compiler-is-out-to-get-me/ Reading software development news sites and blogs, you'll undoubtedly come across a lot of talk about agile development.  In the web world, especially where turn around times are fast and the technology changes even faster, this approach makes a lot of sense: limited documentation, rapid prototyping, a focus on a ... http://patzorz.com/blog/2008/04/01/the-problem-with-the-agile-approach/