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I was recently asked by an freshman computer science student several questions about the software engineering industry. The one I would like to highlight is What are some of the most important software engineering skills? I immediately wanted to start naming off technologies and paradigms that I see used daily. Things like object oriented programming, test driven development, design/architecture patterns, and popular programming languages. But after a moment of contemplation, I responded with what
In algebra, after we learn the basic distributive, commutative, and associative properties, the transitive property of equality is usually next in the curriculum. For those of you who do not recall the terminology, the transitive property of equality says if $a == $b and $b == $n then $a == $n. Using this age old logic, you can prove FALSE == TRUE and 0 == 1 in PHP. Here is how:
Code:$a = 0;
$b = "Hooray for PHP logic and dynamic type casting?";
var_dump(((FALSE ==
Web developers are constantly validating data, either through JavaScript or through a server side programming language such as PHP. If you have done any PHP development, I am sure you have been in the situation where, if a request variable is set, you want want to use that value, if it is not set, you would like it to default to a specific value. The most common and logical method to accomplish this is to use an if/else block.
Code:if(isset($_GET['foo'])) {
$bar = $_GET['foo'];
Today, February 13, 2009 at 6:31 EST, the Unix time reached 1234567890. That is, 1,234,567,890 seconds since the Unix epoch (January 1, 1970).
A few days ago I purchased a D-Link DNS 323 and a 1TB Western Digital hard drive to go along with it. I must say, I am thoroughly impressed. The initial setup took five minutes. I simply took off the front cover of the NAS, inserted the drive (no cables), plugged in the RJ-45 and power cables, and it was all set.
The purpose of a NAS is to provide network storage. The D-Link NAS 323 extends beyond this default requirement and offers an abundance of applications such as a built in FTP
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