Latin gets back in the fast lane
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Swimming the backstroke, Justina Langone pulled Latin Academy out to a strong lead in the first event - the 200-meter medley relay - and the Dragons never looked back, winning the relay and the Boston City Championships yesterday at Madison Park High School.
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Tanned bodies sway to an intense Latin beat on a sticky night at Pravda 116. Here, the rakish clientele knows its house music almost as well as it knows the new Versace fall line. And tonight it likes what it hears.
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Da Argentina versione originale, il via a Roma dal 2
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A little while back Matthew Turland posted about something that some developers moving over to PHP from more strict languages have an issue with - variable typing - and how its evolved in languages over time.   Without a little background in programming languages or computer science in general, it's entirely possible that typing systems are not something that have crossed your mind. I thought I'd take a blog entry to share some of my thoughts on how itÃ¢ÂÂs affecting the creation and evolution of languages.   He walks through history a bit, mentioning C, Java, Python and PHP and how they differ in their default type handling. He especially focuses on the "blurred line" between strong and weak typing and how some if offers special features to the language that uses the method.
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Marta Topferova first heard South-American music growing up behind the Iron Curtain. Now she's one of Latin music's new stars.
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After 30 years apart, the band Os Mutantes has reunited, winning over a new generation of pop cognoscenti.
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Matthew Turland has posted some of his thoughts about a topic that's being tossed around in the programming world these days - that PHP is "on its way out".   I have to vehemently disagree with this, and not just because PHP is my language of preference.   He gives several reasons to back up the claim including the fact that large players use the language in high-profile sites as well as the recent upturn of popularity the language has seen (as people come back from the over-hyped other languages).   He mentions collaborations between PHP companies/divisions as well as components made to more efficiently run PHP applications on other web server types.
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Parte da Latina la prima mobilitazione nazionale
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The Olympic Games are a week old! Not bad for an event first recorded in 776 BC. The Games have so far gone much better than anyone really expected.
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Double-overtime games can be exhausting for running backs. But not for Boston Latin senior Garo Yessayan. He had plenty left in the tank last night, scoring on a 4-yard run and a 2-point conversion rush to push Boston Latin (1-2) to a 36-34 victory over Catholic Memorial (0-2) in a nonleague football game.
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Classic soul makes a comeback. Look for it by its new name: pop, hip-hop or R&B.
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On LinuxJournal today, there's a new article from Marco Tabini about the power of PHP as a multi-purpose language (and not just for web pages anymore).
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Isidoro Jimenez has traveled from New York City, back to his native Mexico and to New York again in search of a new heart.
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Matthew Turland, like many in the PHP community these days, has been pondering PHP6 and what it might mean to both the developers and to the language itself:   Be that as it may, as a user with about five years under his belt as of now who has seen all qualities of PHP code ranging from pristine to pedantic, a thought or two has crossed my mind on the subject of the latest upcoming incarnation of the language.   Specifically, he talks about some of the hot topics like namespaces, the mysqlnd driver, Unicode support, and named parameters. Overall, though, his comments are positive, looking toward a brighter future for PHP with this upcoming edition.
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Sara Golemon brings us some news from the front about PHP6 in her latest blog entry today.   While everyone else has been busily gearing up for the release of PHP 5.2 and the new features that are going to come with it, Andrei and his small band of merry babelonians (yours truly included) have been making inroads on preparing PHP6 for a preview release. In the past week we've managed to roughly double the number of builtin functions (those which are part of the main distribution) that have been reviewed for unicode safety, either flagging them as good or upgrading their functionality   She also talks about what kinds of functions this entailed and how far along they are total (around 22%). She also encourages anyone that wants to get involved to help to jump right in.
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&quot;This is a team that&#39;s not going to stray far from its roots. Hopefully, we would all be bilingual, but practices would be conducted in Spanish.
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Boston Latin over Boston English -- OK, this one isn't for a few months, but here's the point. Sports Illustrated and SI.com recently announced a major push into high school football coverage. The inaugural story included ``10 Games to Watch" this season. But despite two of the four staffers having worked at the Globe as high school football writers, not ...