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A good friend of mine got this song stuck in my head this week. So, here you have this week’s Friday Song Of The Day. This is I Wanna Rock by Twisted Sister from their Stay Hungry (1984) album.
I wanna rock, ROCK
I wanna rock, ROCK
I want to rock, ROCK
I wanna rock, ROCK
Turn it down you [...]

For the past month or so I have been extremely saddened by my FireFox browser. I’m running Windows Vista (weeping and gnashing of teeth) and it seems like Firefox would just freeze up from time to time. I had network activity and could actually browse the sites I was attempting to connect to with another [...]

What Science Fiction Can Teach Developers
Casey Charlton gives some insight as to what science fiction can teach developers. It is a very interesting read ending a the statement, “most documentation is totally and utterly worthless.”
OpenID: Does The World Really Need Yet Another Username and Password?
Jeff Atwood gives a very well written analysis of OpenID providing [...]

Or even have contact with the customer at all? I’ve definitely guilty of the “open book” or “foot in mouth” syndrome while dealing directly with customers, though probably not quite as bad as Dilbert.

I’ve never been one who has been completely up to date with fashion. Since I work from home my dress usually consists of shorts or jeans and a t-shirt. My wife and I were watching the red carpet events for the 2008 Finale of American Idol when Randy Jackson caught my eye. He was wearing [...]

Managing and applying database changes with LiquiBase
Federico Cargnelutti gives a quick demonstration of how to use LiquiBase, an open source, DBMS-independent library for tracking, managing and applying database changes.
Fibonacci Functions
DeWitt Clinton writes a very interesting article which analyzes the differences in several programming languages by comparing implementations of the fibonacci algorithm.
TuneGlue: Cool Music Discovery Tool… [...]

I know you’ve all asked that question before, right? Well maybe not, but I recently had the need to detect what the DATATYPE for arbitrary columns in arbitrary tables were inside a MySQL database using PHP. Turns out that it isn’t all that hard to get.
The main thing about using this method is that we [...]

The tough pull an “all-nighter” to meet deadlines. Here is Billy Ocean’s hit When The Going Gets Tough.
When the going gets tough
The tough get going, tough, tough, huh, huh, huh
When the going gets tough, the tough get ready
Yeah, ooooh, du da du da
I got something to tell you
I got something to say
I’m gonna put this [...]

“You know the hat. It’s become an iconic symbol which is, thankfully, finally returning to the big screen. Indiana Jones’ hat is the hat we’ve always wanted to wear. But the hat really wasn’t just one hat. There were at least three different types of hats (of various costs and specialties) used in the films. [...]

Log memory usage using declare and ticks in PHP
Dave Marshall, a web developer living in Hull, England, share a really quick and simple trick to allow you to monitor the memory usage of a PHP script. Thanks, Dave!
Magnify’s Really Cool Video and Image Search Tool for Blogs
Mashable.com brings you a review of blogging tool to [...]