Programming

Perl is $schrödinger_state

I’ll tell you a secret. I am a huge Perl fan. Always was, ever since I started my developer career in the early 90s. And even though I have programmed in, probably, dozen of other languages since then and Perl has, in all fairness, become the COBOL of the 21st century — it still…

How to make enemies

Every developer blames his or her predecessor. Whenever we get to work on, or maintain, a codebase that was developed by…

Your code may be elegant

… but mine f***ing works

global $issues

Recently I realized that I don’t hate PHP, as I thought for many years, I just hate people who code in PHP. And before lynch mob…