Tips on popping the question in style
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As football season ends and Valentine's Day nears, men can focus on their other loves: their girlfriends.
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Buying, selling, jumping, and dumping -- it's been a busy week in technology. And like the news, this quiz has Yahoo all over it. Can you acquire a perfect score? It's harder than it looks. Award yourself 10 points for each correct answer (sorry, no partials this time). Ready? Then get cracking.1. It turns out Yahoo isn't emotionally unavailable, it's just playing hard to get. What did Yahoo hint would help Microsoft close the deal?a. A seat on the Microsoft board for Jerry Yang b. $40 a share c. Retaining Yahoo brands (don't forget the exclamation point!) d. A restraining order keeping Steve Ballmer 800 miles from SunnyvaleTake the InfoWorld news quiz
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Comment Dirty, and getting dirtier
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Columnist Johanna Rothman explains the art of the question, whether it be in a job interview or a vendor meeting.
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Search Engine Roundtable, the blog of Barry Schwartz, has updated with a much more slick and streamlined design. I&#8217;ve been eagerly awaiting for the day that Barry updates his design as his company, Rusty Brick, puts out some incredible work and his personal blog, CartoonBarry, is top of the shelf in blog functionality. Excellent job Mr. Schwarzt!
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MY SON is sitting his GCSEs in the next few weeks and I wondered if there is anything he should be eating to give him the best chance of doing his best? Katherine Casey, by e-mail. WHAT we eat and drink can have a significant impact on our day-to-day memory.
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This is interesting .  43Things has tags as well!  A lot of people are using the Flickr dynamic and bold font treemap view which I'm not sure is good or bad. I've never been fully happy with this view but a lot of people seem to like it (so what do I know!)
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Harry Fuecks has gotten busy and posted the third part of his "Joy of Regular Expressions" series over on the SitePoint PHP Blog today.   Following on from the last part, this one is more of an intermission-a round up of regex syntax seen so far and a couple of links following feedback.   He looks at two different topics:  A "must reads" section of resources for getting the most out of regular expressions A comprehensive "cheat sheet" with tips on expression delimiters, literals, pattern modifiers, character classes, quantifiers, assertions, sub-patterns, and working with the blackslash.
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Readers respond with wit, wisdom, and sometimes some venom, to Shortcuts columns.
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DevShed is wrapping up their look at the Strategy pattern with the last part of their series posted today - a look at validating a user's input via the pattern.   In the next few lines I'm going to demonstrate how to use the strategy pattern in a useful case, that is validating user-supplied input. Sound like an interesting experience, right?   They start by show how to build a "validation strategy selector" that uses a switch to hand off the request to the correct validation function. Naturally, this is followed by the creation of those validation classes and an example of their use. They wrap it all up with the complete code listing to make cut and paste coding easy.
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If you've had a CT or MRI scan recently, ask your doctor for the CD. You can make something pretty with it. In Bodyhack.
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Tips and resources galore are at your fingertips.
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In a new post on the Spindrop.us site today, Dave Dash takes a look at the differences between using single quotes and double quotes in your applications.   I've been indoctrinated with the "use single quotes whenever possible" methodology, but I never really put it to the test. Is it really worth it for me to go back and look at old code that uses double quotes and change them? Like all best practices, the answer is "maybe."   To show his point, he whipped up some simple tests to get the results of using double quotes and appending, using double quotes with the variable inside, and using single quotes and appending. His results showed that the first option was the fastest, not the one with single quotes.
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Wired's How To Wiki discusses the finer points speaking in public -- without making a fool of yourself.
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You know the deal: Your kid asks a question on a touchy subject. You squirm and dodge the issue.
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By Mike Peters, Greeley Tribune, Colo.  Feb. 17--One of the Most Popular Features Ever To Be In The Newspaper -- the Trib Q & A Guy -- has another great column for you.   If you haven't seen the Trib Q & A Guy before, don't worry. This is the first time he's been here.
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Stoyan Stefanov has a fun little post showing an interesting formatting trick to make reading arrays/hashes easier:   Writing readable code means proper indentation. Usually you'd tab (or use 2 or 4 or 3 spaces) after every curly bracket. [...] Same goes when you have a bigger hash/object sort of thing [...] But recently, inspired by Firebug's Net panel way of presenting header information, I tried aligning the keys to the right in addition to aligning the values to the left.   Check out the entry for examples of each of these techniques and see which might fit your programming style the best. Personally, the align right style looks nice but could be more of a pain than it's worth to force my editor into.