Category: Technology

I work in technology sector. And I do round a clock, not only from 9 to 5. It is my bread and butter, it is my hobby, it is the fascination of my life. And with the current rate of change particular in information technology (IT), there is always something new to learn, to try, to talk about. I often post news, thoughts, and reviews. And when I do, this is the category I use.

Cool stuff in upcoming WordPress 3.6

WordPress 3.6 is not too far away, with the first beta already released last week.   WordPress VIP blog did a very nice and very visual overview of the changes and new features in the release.  For me personally, these are the highlights: log out notifications, better autosave, and a new look for post formats.

WordPress logout notification

Things that I still hope to see one day in WordPress are: some sort of standard for post formats (cross-theme support, mobile app support, etc), and easier way of development and deployment across multiple environments (dev/test/live servers, etc).  Regardless of my pending wishes, WordPress is still an awesome piece of software, which gets even more awesome with each release.

PHP is meant to die

PHP is meant to die

This one is not your average PHP bashing.  It only covers one, but rather generic, problem with PHP – dying, no matter what.  Personally, I am familiar with the problem and I had to work around it as well (that’s how Locker came to be), but I’ve never had a project with high enough load to trigger a major issue.

There’s more to this. If you’ve used PHP an awful lot , you may have experienced this very weird issue:

Fatal error: Exception thrown without a stack frame in Unknown on line 0

What does that mean? I honestly have no idea. I can’t find the line #0 into an unknown PHP file.

Happy birthday, Gmail!

It turns out it’s quite a birthday day today.  Not only GitHub is being five, but Gmail is being nine!  Between the two of them, that’s a lot of my screen time right there.  Anyways, happy birthday Gmail.  Please stay free and awesome, and thank you for all the time you saved me with your excellent spam filters.

Gmail Infographic

 

Happy birthday, GitHub!

GitHub is five years old.  I find it really difficult to believe that the service I rely on so heavily, both at work and at home, haven’t even been around so recently.  I use GitHub both at work, and at home.   In fact, every single piece of development I do, even if that’s just for a one time bash oneliner, I start it with a new git repository.  And more often than not, that repository ends up being pushed to GitHub.

octocat

 

 

 

Happy birthday, guys!  Please keep doing what you are doing.  It obviously works for millions of people.