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That depends on where you live. In Denmark you cannot bail out of prison no matter how much money you have.

Using something like TDD or BDD should decrease the number of bugs, but the larger your application gets, the higher chance of a bug will be higher.

So DUI is okay until you hit someone and kill them?

No you're not. You still retain copyright even if you release it as e.g. GPL. Only if you release it to public domain will you lose copyright. Besides, just because someone can do something doesn't mean they are allowed to. For all practical purposes though, wouldn't you be giving it up? If people can modify and freely use it, what are they limited on? No, because you can suddenly release it under a new license if you wish to. You cannot do that if you've released it to public domain (because it's not yours anymore).

Yeah, I'm looking forward to HTML5. Just a shame we'll have to wait a couple of millennia until Internet Explorer will support it properly.

IP addresses should be stored as an unsigned integer, not as a dotted string. To hold the largest dotted string IP you would need at least 15 chars. However, an 32-bit integer is only 4 bytes. Moreover, comparing integers is much faster than comparing strings. Say you wanted all users that are in the range 192.168.0.0-192.168.0.255, then you would simply do: SELECT username, ip FROM users WHERE ip BETWEEN INET_ATON('192.168.0.0') AND INET_ATON('192.168.0.255');

Yes. It was a problem with the guid element.

I'm not offended. I just think that feature would be redundant. You can emulate that feature by clicking using the "notify" option though.

Any reason why you cannot use your browser's bookmark feature?

Zandstra, Matt. PHP Objects, Patterns, and Practice. Apress, 2007. Gamma, Eric et al. Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software. Addison-Wesley, 1994. Fowler, Martin. Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture. Addison-Wesley, 2002. Weisfeld, Matt. The Object-Oriented Thought Process. Sams, 2003. Norvig, Peter. "Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years". 2001. <http://norvig.com/21-days.html> Raymond, Eric. "How To Become A Hacker". 2001. <http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html> (not specifically programming, but you might find it informative anyway) Hunt, Andrew; Thomas, David. The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master. Addison-Wesley, 1999. In addition to that, try to help people in our help forums. You'll often learn by seeing other people's problems and try to fix them. Some people recommend that you check out code other people wrote. If you do that then you must be really careful. There is some really bad code out there, and as a beginning programmer it might be difficult to distinct between good and bad code.

Sounds like the karma feature we are against (search this forum).

its friggin easy. if youve learnt .htaccess coding youll know what i mean, its about as "hard" as that There is no such thing as .htaccess coding. It's just a configuration file. Besides, learning about the syntax is the easy part. You need to learn about methodology and application design as well to be a good programmer.

Yes.

Yeah, we don't have any space problems. We have 450 GiB at our disposal. Plenty of space for full words...

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You've come to the right place then

Assuming you mean Zend Studio, then yes, it is available for Mac OS X. Due to poor grammar I wasn't able to understand the second part of the sentence.

It's working as intended, thus not broken. Your profile on the main page fetches the info from the forum database. The only unique info there is there is your name and whether you want the sidebar displayed or not. No point in repeating the code.

No you're not. You still retain copyright even if you release it as e.g. GPL. Only if you release it to public domain will you lose copyright. Besides, just because someone can do something doesn't mean they are allowed to. You will need to get a court to determine that. If you feel someone crossed the line then you must file a lawsuit.

I'm afraid not. As I said, we cannot verify transactions. The only person who can do that is too busy to do so, I'm afraid. I'm not saying you're lying, but a screenshot isn't proof anyway. The only way to get the subscription is to go through the payment procedure via your profile panel.

We cannot verify this, so unfortunately, no, that is not possible.

You should use HTML 4.01 Strict. If you use an XHTML doctype then you should serve it as application/xhtml+xml, which does not work with Internet Explorer. If you serve it as text/html then the browser will not render it as XHTML, but HTML. Moreover, the draconian error handling used in XHTML isn't very user friendly either. HTML will try to render, but XML stops at the slightest syntax error.

Images are displayed as inline by default, so floating them is redundant.

There is a free plan as well, which works quite well (it's the one we use). You can compare premium and standard here: http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/editions.html

You can if you migrate to Google Apps. We use it here on PHP Freaks.