Archive for July, 2008

PHP == or ===

July 29th, 2008

Many PHP developers get confused when using the comparison operators.  Mainly weather to us two equal signs or three.  It really is a simple concept when you understand what it does.  The double equal sign (==) compares two data types which don’t have to be in the same type.  So for example you can compare
$a [...]


Blackberry Bold Coming to AT&T

July 27th, 2008

I was over at the AT&T store in the Reston Town Center on Saturday and was looking around at the BlackBerrys.  I saw no advertisements yet for the BlackBerry Bold so I asked the salesman about it.  He told me that the RIM salesman was just in talking to the store about it and that [...]


ABC Tweets Twitter

July 23rd, 2008

Last night on ABC News with Charlie Gibson they did a piece on Twitter.com.  It was a pretty good piece but did they get it all wrong?  They marketed the whole twitter service as a customer service platform.  Yes it can be used as that since there are some companies that are responding to customer [...]


No Pushing!

July 21st, 2008

Why not just wait for the next train?


Backtick Operator

July 11th, 2008

I just learned something new today in PHP.  It’s the Backtick Operator.  What it does is executes a shell command and captures its output.  You can then store that in a variable for use.  I am pretty sure this is a UNIX command only.  Not sure if this will work in windows or not.  Here [...]