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Your programming language sucks

PHP sucks. I rushed maurus.net onto the net in 2006, so I could send Tim Bray a link to an article when he wrote a rant about PHP. At the time I was working on an article called "I'm sorry, but PHP sucks", because I was sick of having the same discussion again and again. By now, a lot of other problems have come to my attention and that's why I decided to also post articles on other programming languages here. This is not meant as an indictment of programmers who are using these languages, it's meant as an opportunity to inform yourself about problems that you will run into if you're using them, so you can avoid them and put safeguards in place for other, less informed, programmers.

Writing geocoded distance queries

In this article I write about the lessons that I've learned while implementing an often-requested feature: searching a list of objects for objects that are spatially near certain coordinates. Using Google's Geocoding service and a bit of math that's easily doable.

Wordpress Plug-ins

To run this weblog I developed a couple of small plug-ins that provide some new functionality and fix a few grievances that I had with some of Wordpress' defaults. I decided to place them under the GPL v3 so someone else could perhaps create something interesting with them.

Qmail recipes 2: Integrating qmail with nixspam and spamassassin

A advanced "how-to" that shows how to integrate the excellent procmail-based nixspam spam-filter with spamassassin and hook it all up in qmail. This solution, combined with RBL lists, reduced spam on my accounts by 99.9%. Try it!

Compiling Zope 3.2.0 with the free .NET toolchain

This short article documents my struggle to compile Zope 3.2.0 on a Windows box using only free tools.

Other peoples' publications

Books

Over the years, I've accumulated a few favorite books that I'd like to recommend to you. The list includes books on software engineering and project management, as well as results-oriented psychology (primarily NLP-related).

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