Casper's Life

Back in February 2008 I wrote about my unhappyness about Apples inability to build a usefull PHP for Leopard (OSX 10.5), which forced more or less everyone who would be using PHP on Leopard to use a 3rd party build. And as far as I remember this was also the case with Tiger. Now finally after years of waiting Apple have finally decided to compile PHP with GD (graphics manipulation library), enabled. GD Support => enabled GD Version => bundled (2.0.34 compatible) GIF Read Support => enabled GIF Create Support => enabled JPEG Support => enabled libJPEG Version => 6b PNG Support => enabled libPNG Version => 1.2.37 WBMP Support => enabled XBM Support => enabled One can say that Apple actually delivers, but why did it have to take years.....

Some one send me this link . Maybe this was what they decided on when they designed the 'internet' - or maybe it was just Microsoft....

I've been learning something new this week (which happens on a regular basic), but this time it was very official, I actually went to a training. It was decided, that I had to learn Python , which is a [stag]programming language[/stag], and yet another of the scripting ones - we already have Perl , PHP , Ruby , and so forth, which meant that I actually was in some sort of pathetic way was looking forward to see what all this was about. There is one thing which is annoying about Python, and it's even worse that they have decided not to do something about it. They have not implemented a 'switch' statement, they have some obscure reason why; It is too early to decide. I'd like to see at least one completed proposal for pre-computed values before deciding. In the mean time, Python is fine without a switch statement, and perhaps those who claim it would be a mistake to add one are right. The whole thing is discussed here . A switch statement is used to in a very simple...