Astronaut Exercise Doesn't Fix Array
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By MIKE SCHNEIDER  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA asked an astronaut aboard the international space station to exercise vigorously Friday, hoping the rapid movement would jostle a half-retracted solar wing that refuses to fold up properly.
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Atlantis astronauts may use a sewing kit normally reserved for spacesuits to repair a peeled-back thermal blanket near the spacecraft's tail, NASA managers said Tuesday. The shuttle astronauts' 11-day mission was extended Monday by two days to allow time to fix the thermal blanket, which peeled during launch last week.
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Two spacewalking astronauts finished folding up a stubborn, accordion-like solar array Monday, resolving the only complication in space shuttle Discovery's otherwise smooth mission to the international space station.
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In a new post today, Maggie Nelson starts with the wrong way to do something - passing an array from PHP to a database - and works backward to make it all right.   It would be really useful to have an easy way to pass arrays as bound parameters to queries or procedures from PHP. This would be especially useful if you're letting Oracle handle most of your data manipulating (as you should).   She includes an example of how she's like it to work. Sadly, it doesn't but there are some ways that a developer could get close. Here's her process:   No queries in loops, please! In the ideal world... Put all your DML in stored procedures. str2tbl The list_pkg package list_pkg in your procedure list_pkg in your PHP Leveraging list_pkg   The list_pkg is based around this article from AskTom.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Dec. 16 -- Two astronauts floated outside the international space station Saturday aiming to finish rewiring the orbiting outpost and folding a stubborn solar array so that a fourth, unplanned spacewalk would not be needed.
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Astronauts, not robots, should fix the Hubble Space Telescope, says a new report by the US National Research Council (NRC). That conclusion is directly at odds with NASA, which is opposed to a human mission
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By MIKE SCHNEIDER  HOUSTON - The astronauts asked to repair a loose thermal blanket on shuttle Atlantis have studied the fine points of aerospace engineering and built their strength for the strenuous task in weight rooms.
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According to this new post on the Inside Open Source blog from APress, Andi Gutmas has made a  for a new syntax to be added to the existing array functionality in PHP.   The suggestion involves the use of brackets ([ and ]) to declare the initial array, similar to the way other languages (even Javascript) work.   The current split among the big players in PHP development looks to be about 50/50. The general thought of the opposition is that it is an unnecessary change that will only lead to confusion in the future. Why create two ways of doing the same thing?
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WASHINGTON - Astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) are gearing up for an extra spacewalk to tackle solar array joint malfunctions outside their orbital laboratory.
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By Traci Watson  Home renovations are never easy. In space, where there's no gravity to keep things in place, construction is even tougher.
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Anyone who    wants to follow in the shoes of Burt Rutan and win the next big space prize    will have to build a spacecraft capable of taking a crew of no fewer than five    people to an altitude of 400 kilometers and complete two orbits of the Earth    at that altitude. Then they have to repeat that accomplishment within 60 days.
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Launching off from this previous post on the Stubbles Blog, two more posts (from two other developers) have been posted on the same subject:  In this new post, Frank Kleine takes things a step further and talks about the same kind of type hinting but for more types - including arrays and objects. Examples of how he'd expect things to work followed. The other post is from Stephan Schmidt again and varies slightly off into the world of Namespaces to be included in PHP6 along with the use of annotations.  Be sure to check out the comments on each for some more interesting tidbits...
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In 2015, an array of 4400 twelve meter fully steerable paraboloid radio dishes, called the Square Kilometer Array (SKA) is scheduled to be complete and operational.    Astrobiology Magazine -- The project plans are being developed by a consortium of institutions headed up by Cornell, and funded by the National Science Foundation among others...
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Gareth Heyes has posted another challenge to his blog - this time it involves using a regular expression to convert the inputted string into the output he's given.   After the success of my "a bit of fun" challenge, a few people asked for some more challenges. So I was answering a question on a mailing list that I'm a member of and I thought it would be a good topic for a little challenge and help sharpen everyone's regular expression skills.   This time, his challenge involves taking the input, rail start/end locations from an array and, via the PHP script given (no regular expression in it, of course) make the output, a sort of JSON formatted message. It's already been answered, but if you want to, try it yourself first then read the answer below the post.
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Cutting calories in space is more about sorting food packets than eating a little less and saving the rest for later. In space, there are no leftovers.
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By Traci Watson A team of spacewalking astronauts pulled off the tricky installation of a new piece of the International Space Station on Tuesday, but the success was marred by a problem familiar to all do-it-yourselfers: One of the astronauts lost a tool.
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Keith Devens says:  It turns out it's much faster to build large strings from many smaller strings by concatenating them onto one string than it is to append to an array repeatedly and then join that array into a string. I timed it and was surprised by the results.  But that's not Secret #812. Read what Joshua Paine has to say in that post's comments.