I have built quite a few directory systems in my years as a web developer and one thing that has always annoyed me is building letter filters to return results depending on the first letter of a title.
Normally I would waste a lot of time actually typing out the entire alphabet string:
$alphabet = ‘abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz’;
which can [...]
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After 2 years of excuses, laziness, constant turnover (complete waste of training time when the guy/girl buggers off and leaves you with a new muppet), terrible or copied-from-Google code, never-ending bugs, headaches, baffling phone calls where no-one understood each other, emails that promised to “do the needful” but went ignored, applications that just didn’t work, [...]
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“Developers,” a VP at Electronic Arts once told me, explaining why there were so many me-too Windows applications, “will walk through the desert in their socks to get to an installed base.”
True enough. But it doesn’t quite explain the results of a survey issued last week by Evans Data Corp. The headline was that most [...]
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