I was at the bookstore this week looking at software development lifecycle and management books and came across a book called “More Joel on Software.”  This is the second version of the book and I looked through it real quick but was wondering if anyone has read this and what they think about it?
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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 [...]

With this statement:
Even good programmers make mistakes. The difference between a good programmer and a bad programmer is that the good programmer uses tests to detect his mistakes as soon as possible. The sooner you test for a mistake the greater your chance [...]

What’s the deal with firefox?  It seams that every time I launch the application it has a new update!  This is getting as bad as Microsoft Updates.  Has firefox been lacking on there testing of the application before they release?
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