Running and Hiding Behind Clever Catch Phrases
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By Anthony Wade As the glow fades from the second presidential debate, where John Kerry once again appeared more presidential, we must turn our attention to the stretch run and ensure that the Bush Cabal does not use clever catch phrases and non
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Online crooks are constantly switching tactics in an attempt to invade your PC. Be on guard for these latest sneaky tricks.
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Dating, negotiating, fragging and making money.  Play and its consequences.
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Humor: Sometimes the best way to find what you're looking for is to get lost.
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The winner of this year's competition in the classic computerized strategy game shows that a tactic based on cooperating with team members can succeed over one that relies on echoing rivals' moves. By Wendy M. Grossman.
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Harry Fuecks is back today on the SitePoint PHP Blog with part two of his "joy of regular expressions" series, continuing on from this previous entry.   He jumps right in, summarizing the first part in a small section before getting back into the examples:  Hunting for .jp(e)gs Escaping Meta-Characters Search and Replace preg_quote() preg_replace() Word Boundaries, Word Characters...and everything else Sub patterns Spot the XSS Hole eval() is evil! preg_replace_callback()  As you can see, it's crammed with just as much infromation as the first part and covers a wide range of topics to help you get more in tune with your inner regular expression guru.
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One Fool has a few suggestions for keeping your portfolio intact.
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Analysis: They may be amusing and provide unanticipated uses, but do they have functions for the long haul?
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Sneaky program takes a different tack to capture people's passwords and potentially steal money.
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Knowing a little bit more than the next guy is the name of the game on Wall Street.
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Attack or defend. Go for broke or go broke. Push all in or play the percentages.
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Nick Halstead has started up another programming competition today - this time it's a bit broader in scope and doesn't focus so much on just PHP.   I have a couple of licenses for Zend Studio Professional that I have been holding back to give away for a competition. So after writing yesterdays programming 'tips' I thought perhaps I should get my readers to submit their own tips and then give away one copy for what I think is the best 'tip' and then I will also hold a online vote for the second copy.   The basic process is to submit your favorite tip to Nick and he'll pick his favorite of the day. This happens each day and at the end of the week, there'll be a drawing for the licenses from each day's top tips.   Submit your entries via his contact form.
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They're not obvious, and they're not always cheap.
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Anyone desperate for a break from crunching numbers, minding the kids or studying for exams knows how easy it can be to find distraction in the simple brain teasing of computer games like Sudoku, solitaire or mahjong.
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There's no shortage of people playing dirty tricks, or just being plain annoying, online. Here's a taxonomy to help you sort them out
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In a new entry on his blog today, Marco Tabini introduces us to 5 PHP Performance Tips that we "probably don't want to hear".   I thought it might be interesting to write an article about the performance-enhancing tips you probably don't want to hear about - that is, those that are most likely to produce measurable (and durable) results but do require some effort on your part.   His list consists of:  You Don't Need To Plan Ahead In Order To Have A Plan Combat Database Abuse Do You Really Need A Database Anyway? Scale Horizontally Refactor To Scale Vertically  For each, he explains the title and gives a bit of validation to the point. There's some great mentions of tools that you can use to help accomplish them too - a profiler, the Lucene and Xapian full-text databases, and Lustre.
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A quick screen for making winning picks.