Discount Competence

I’ve never quite understood why no one writes PHP libraries in C. The platform completely supports it. In JSP, when you need a tag that doesn’t exist and none of the 10,000,000 Java classes that you’ve installed with your latest and most buzzword-compliant framework supply it, you write it — in Java. You compile it and install it on the machine. At this point, new functionality exists for all of your JSP pages and you can write-in that cute little tag that you created that converts strings to lowercase.

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I’ve spent the last 2 days trying to debug a problem with a drupal module that is installed on one of the sites at work. The problem was with a module called img_assist. Basically it allows for a user-friendly way to add images to drupal nodes by creating the image as a node itself.

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I don’t know about you, but I’ve noticed a tremendous increase in the amount of spam that I’ve been receiving lately. For years I’ve employed a system of identifying the sources of my spam, but it has not been as successful as I would have hoped. I own quite a few domain names, and I’ve had one in particular for a very long time. Every time I sign up for any sort of online account that requires an email address, I would use that site’s url @ my domain as the address. What this allowed me to do, at the very least, was to identify those companies that sold my email address to people who spammed me later on. One of the biggest problems with this was that it meant that I had to set up a catch-all for my domain, pointing to my main account.

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