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PHP Poetry & T-Shirt Design Contest
LetterJ writes "I've started a contest to get some clever PHP poetry and other T-shirt designs over at PHPGeek.com. Designs and entered code should be licensed under an OSI aproved license. Details are available at PHP Geek."
First there was C
* obfuscated C contest
* then, C++
* then Java
First there was perl
* perl poetry
* and now php
why abuse those clever ideas?
obfuscating, or reciting a given language for the
first time, is a sign of fascination.
When the workalike languages copy this, it be comes
stupid copycatation. Stopit
you can make the t-shirts all you want, slashdot
is after all, a front-end ad host for thinkgeek
If you don't want your email on them, I don't care. I just wanted to provide a way to let people claim credit for their designs on the shirts in some way and have a method of contacting the designer after seeing the shirt.
LetterJ
Head Geek
The Glass is Too Big: My Take on Things
It would be unfair if I asked for all submissions to be signed over to me and only handed over a shirt. Because I'm asking for entries to be open source, no one has to buy one from my site in order to get a shirt with a entered design. They can grab the graphic and have their own made up. On the other hand, buying one from my site gives someone who wishes to support my efforts something in exchange for their contribution. Ever notice that PBS gives away something for every donation?
LetterJ
Head Geek
The Glass is Too Big: My Take on Things
I don't get it. . . PHP has a following that will do ANYTHING to promote it. Why?
This article is a great example of what I'm talking about. PHP vs. Servlets vs. perl CGI? come on!? Any fair comparison would be PHP vs. JSP vs. HTML::Mason. And, you know what? THE CODE EXAMPLES WOULD HAVE LOOKED ALMOST EXACTLY THE SAME! Furthermore, relevant issues like CPAN library strength, DB support, and exceptions could have been discussed
Slashdot needs a mechanism so that people can vote down innappropriate top-level articles like this so that it can save its reputation from these stinkers.
A similar contest for Python. There's nuthing more amusing than what a buncha sex starved geeks would come up with for clever python jokes
Copyleft has some PHP Merchandise. But it'll be nice to have some more options for cool PHP wear.
Roses are red
Violets are blue
PHP rocks
And Microsoft's ASP really sucks a whole bunch, achoo!
The line must be drawn here. This far. No further.
I'm trying to hemorrhage karma, but it seems a little obvious.
s/see/hear/ surely? And where perchance does the Amazon affiliate cash go?
PHP is good Much better than ASP Death to Microsoft ;)
do the shirts or the poetry have to incorporate the letters P and H in any way?
The anti-salmon
For those times at night when I feel cold and scared, I like to wrap myself in PHP and know that I have my security blanket :-)
Fruit flies like bananas... Time flies like the wind...
Bah! A true geek can type fluently with only one hand!
-atrowe: Card-carrying Mensa member. I have no toleranse for stupidity.
So we release a t-shirt design under an open-source license so that you can sell them and make money? Shouldn't the designer get something out of it? I'm not trying to flame or troll, but it seems a little unfair.
Uninnovate - Only the finest in engineering.
For inspiration, you should go here.8 -11d2-A769-00AA001ACF42
http://www.phpgeek.com/print.php?=PHPE9568F36-D42
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No offense, but that isn't actual code - I think I can call the doohickeys (orignally wrote objects, but changed to eliminate further offense) in my pseudocode whatever I feel like.... cocksucker :)
If I was trying to look smart on Slashdot I would have a far grander problem than a mediocre bank of programming knowledge.
Some programming philosophy (brackets changed to parenthesis to counter lameness filter):
function am(self)
if self.think then
return 1;
Of course, in the mean time, we should all hope that no program ever enters this if loop - lest we all perish at the horrible might of sentient computers!
Man, listening to Tortoise makes me come up with some wierd Slashdot postings...
Some poetry:
if roses.red then violets.blue, etc... really though, shouldn't violets be, uh, violet?
Actually, to be honest, I think it's a good idea. But if I won, I would make sure the address was an alternate one and not too important to me.
-- If no truths are spoken then no lies can hide --
-- If no truths are spoken then no lies can hide --
PHP isin't good for me
Jeez, what's with all of these contests?!? I feel like I'm in 3rd grade again! Before you know it, IBM's gonna run a "Color Tux By Numer" contest...
I've discovered this is an excellent way of wasting large amounts of time - reasonably correct syntax/semantics in English and strict correctness in PHP makes for more of a challenge than most menial PHP tasks. I should be writing C++ code for my finals... grr...
Now, as for these shirts and poems and such - it's a cool idea, but what happens if all of them suck and he has to take the best of the sucky ones. I mean, come on...most of us are programmers and the like anyway. How are we supposed to come up with something cool enough for a shirt. I'd say that we let Thinkgeek or Copyleft worry about the cool duds and let us worry about making our code run just that little bit faster.
And, yes, if you're wondering, I am a PHP developer and I love it. I love how flexible it is and how fast it makes development. You don't get caught up so much in syntax that you can't code your way out, and it's developed enough to where just about anything can be done with it (including things like an IRC bot and large database driven websites). -enygma
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