Counting Characters in UTF-8 Strings Is Fast —
Aristotle Pagaltzis: “Not exactly as fast [as SBCS strlen], but if you write it in asm, it only takes one extra instruction to count characters in UTF-8 vs those in an 8-bit encoding, per character.”
canonical.org
18:36
Maintainable Programmers —
This was a really great lesscode.org piece by Aristotle. The follow-up discussion in the comments was superb as well. Being in the middle of everything really warped my view of what was going on back then, I think.
lesscode.org
18:00
Why PHP is good but bad —
Not sure how I missed linking to this. Pretty much mirrors my feelings on PHP to a T, except more thought out.
plasmasturm.org
17:37
Why I chose git —
Wherein Aristotle convinces me to seriously consider moving my experimental bzr projects to git. I’ve seen the content vs. file tracking argument before but never really understood what the actual impact of this difference was.
plasmasturm.org
04:47
The future is yesterday [plasmasturm.org] —
I saw this same note on rest-discuss the other day and thought it struck a chord. :) Jon Hanna on SOAP, Web 2.0, other stuff…
plasmasturm.org
12:59