Ramblings of a web guy

I am a OSCON. I could not get into the talk, but Google just announced that they are going to start hosting projects (like SourceForge). Reports in IRC say it will use Subversion and BigTables for storage. See http://code.google.com/hosting/ for more. You can see an example project at http://code.google.com/p/testng/ and http://code.google.com/p/hostingdemo/.

As some may know, I am not a big OOP fan.  I am more of “coding with objects” fan.  I tried to find somewhere on the internet that describes that, but I could not.  Looks like there is a paper in my future.

I read the PHP Internals list.  Its nice to keep up with what is going on.  I even contribute a morsel every now and then.  In the last week or so, I have seen several arguments about the OOP stuff in PHP.  Now, if we were talking about adding major features like {insert 1337 OOP thing here :) }, I could understand.  But, no, there was a gazillion (I counted) message thread about what to name a new class.  Followed by another thread about what to name another new class.

It comes down to this.  In the OOP world, you have the academics and the pracitalists (I think I made that word up).  The academics want the PHP OOP to work just like the theories say it  should.  While the practicalists want PHP to work like the other popular languages that are OOP based.  However, they both have a problem.  PHP’s OOP support is still way simpler than say C++ or Java.  Personally, I like it that way.  But, you can’t be academic and not have every facet of OOP covered.  You also can’t always expect PHP to act like C++, Java, Delphi, etc. for the same reason.

So, for me, I will stick to me good ol’ functions.  They work with very little fuss.  And when I come across something that needs an object, I will use one.

So, I get an email that looks like an ebay question from a buyer to a seller. The only thing is, I don’t have anything for sell. I check out the auction number (by copying and pasting it from the email) and its a legit auction. Now, as I said earlier, I try not to do anything stupid with my email. So, before clicking anything in the email, I hovered the links. To my surprise, the links are all http://www.google.com/pagead/… links. A couple of days later, I get another one. As if click fraud is not bad enough, now spammers are getting into the game.

So, beware. If you get an email from “ebay”, it very well could be a click fraud spam. Hover those links before you click.

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