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Function Overloading and PHP

August 3rd, 2005

I’m proud of writing elegant code that can be easily read and intuitively understood. I use whitespace to increase my code’s readability, and I utilize simple, specialized programming language constructs to make my code more concise. For example, I’ll use PHP’s foreach construct, instead of a traditional for loop, to eliminate unnecessary indexers. This construct […]

“Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish”

July 31st, 2005

On the twelfth day of June in the year two thousand and five, Steve Jobs addressed alumnae and alumni at Stanford University during their commencement ceremony: I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this […]

Cisco PIX and “DNS Doctoring”

July 29th, 2005

I have been searching long and hard for the solution that allows Server A and Server B, both of which are behind the same Cisco PIX and are within the same private network, to communicate with each other using their public IP addresses. The firewall, in this case a Cisco PIX 515E, is configured with […]

Hello, World!

July 28th, 2005

Here’s my variation of Brian Kernighan’s famous phrase: std::cout << “Hello, World!” << std::endl;