What if he's got money? If I was rich I wouldn't hesitate two seconds on sicking my lawyer(s) on a BS ticket/fee/law that annoyed me.
People say this sort of thing, but it's not really true. People with money did not accumulate it by spending 200$ - 300$ to get a 10$ refund check.
I know many people with money who would do just that - especially if they felt themselves morally wronged by something.
Aside from this, perhaps he has a tame lawyer a friend. Not so uncommon.
Anyway, thanks for your opinion on his statement.
For the most part, storing personal or sensitive data on Amazon S3 (like backups - see duplicity) should go hand in hand with encryption (GPG etc). I carry my laptop in my bag to work, and really do think that the data on that stands much more chance of being nicked than the encrypted data I have on S3.
Honestly, the way some of you bitches bitch anyone would think that PHP6 is a step backwards rather than forwards. I can't really see anything wrong with the language maturing. If it brings it more inline with some peoples definition of a "proper" language, then that's surely something to be commended - right?. Sure some of the updates are a bit late, but I'd hazard a guess that this is so due to purely pragmatic reasons, which y'know, is something that we can all appreciate in a way.
One thing I'm really looking forwards to is the native Caching and UTF-8 support (missing from Ruby).
a) Write your own - Best if you can be bothered
b) Paid for budget software such as Pinnacle cart - Best if you can't be bothered, and/or it needs to be maintained by a non-techie.
With all paid for software, it'll be difficult to get it *very* different from the default layout the first time round unless you are prepared to put loads of time into learning the software *and* layout.
OSC embodies pretty much everything that people say is wrong with PHP development. I'm sure they (the OSC devs) are a well meaning bunch, but if you ever want an example of spaghetti code, go download the source and book a week off.
If you even consider using it, well good luck with altering the codebase in any significant way - you'll (almost literally) need it.
What irks me most is that people will look at this and think that all PHP apps are this badly/painfully written. Believe it or not (and contrary to the general Slashdot line), with PHP5.1 it's actually really easy to write pretty good looking (from a programmers perspective), functional *and* maintainable OOP/MVC webapps provided you understand the above core concepts of OOP/MVC.
OSC needs to be taken into a quiet room and shot, just like the rest of the old PHP4 apps.
Ever looked at Merak Mail Server? It does everything Exchange does (and more), and has the faint whiff of OSS code also.
It's capabilities, and relative obscurity over exchange make it *well* worth a look if you're working with MS servers.
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People say this sort of thing, but it's not really true. People with money did not accumulate it by spending 200$ - 300$ to get a 10$ refund check.
I know many people with money who would do just that - especially if they felt themselves morally wronged by something. Aside from this, perhaps he has a tame lawyer a friend. Not so uncommon. Anyway, thanks for your opinion on his statement.
No, they will not. Stop strutting like a chicken and making a lot of noise, you'll never do anything and you know it.
It's quite easy to write a letter you know. In addition, applause rather than ridicule is what's deserved in this case. Don't be a hater.
For the most part, storing personal or sensitive data on Amazon S3 (like backups - see duplicity) should go hand in hand with encryption (GPG etc). I carry my laptop in my bag to work, and really do think that the data on that stands much more chance of being nicked than the encrypted data I have on S3.
Honestly, the way some of you bitches bitch anyone would think that PHP6 is a step backwards rather than forwards. I can't really see anything wrong with the language maturing. If it brings it more inline with some peoples definition of a "proper" language, then that's surely something to be commended - right?. Sure some of the updates are a bit late, but I'd hazard a guess that this is so due to purely pragmatic reasons, which y'know, is something that we can all appreciate in a way.
One thing I'm really looking forwards to is the native Caching and UTF-8 support (missing from Ruby).
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b) Paid for budget software such as Pinnacle cart - Best if you can't be bothered, and/or it needs to be maintained by a non-techie.
With all paid for software, it'll be difficult to get it *very* different from the default layout the first time round unless you are prepared to put loads of time into learning the software *and* layout.
OSC embodies pretty much everything that people say is wrong with PHP development. I'm sure they (the OSC devs) are a well meaning bunch, but if you ever want an example of spaghetti code, go download the source and book a week off. If you even consider using it, well good luck with altering the codebase in any significant way - you'll (almost literally) need it. What irks me most is that people will look at this and think that all PHP apps are this badly/painfully written. Believe it or not (and contrary to the general Slashdot line), with PHP5.1 it's actually really easy to write pretty good looking (from a programmers perspective), functional *and* maintainable OOP/MVC webapps provided you understand the above core concepts of OOP/MVC. OSC needs to be taken into a quiet room and shot, just like the rest of the old PHP4 apps.
Ever looked at Merak Mail Server? It does everything Exchange does (and more), and has the faint whiff of OSS code also. It's capabilities, and relative obscurity over exchange make it *well* worth a look if you're working with MS servers.