Month: July 2006
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Piranha (Dale Brown)
I’ve got four books to write about today. I finished the first and went straight into the next two. Then a friend lent me another book that I just couldn’t put down. The first book was another of Dale Brown’s Dreamland series. It’s a typical military action thriller based around a research and covert operations…
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Course Complete!
Hooray! Course over. I think I’ve found a new way of learning, instructor led over the Internet seems to be the way for me to go with many of the strange things I want to learn more about. Ben Ramsey the tutor really knows his stuff. Between us (the class) we really threw some awkward…
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Who created $foo $bar?
During my recent programming course on PHP, we had to use variables to store data. The content or use of those variables wasn’t significant to the thing we had to learn, so as is common in coding circles we used variables $foo and $var. I wonder who first used the variables $foo $bar? In terms…