Is overloading a bad thing? Despite a wide variety of new languages supporting some form of it I continue to find articles that say overloading is bad. Worse, I find many articles that somehow think overloading operators is bad but that overloading functions is perfectly okay. more⇛

Each time I start a new project I find myself looking at the latest batch of frameworks. Lately those are web frameworks, such as CakePHP, RubyOnRails, perhaps JQuery, or any other of the thousands which seem to exist. Usually I end up using none of them. more⇛

Storing user credentials is one of the key roadblocks in creating a sessionless web application. Somehow you need to safely identify the user without storing data on the server nor allowing tampering on the client. more⇛

Strato.de decided to lock our account due to a "possible attack" from our system. They do this without any explanation, without any email, and without any possibility to correct the situation. The normal support line at first promises an email response, but none comes. more⇛

I don't need to give much evidence that the Yahoo Mail spam checking is seriously broken. All I need to do is point a note they make when you request assistance (admin assistance) with Yahoo Mail delivery problems. more⇛

I've uploaded another new brain. This one again has very little in terms of user-level functionality. A lot of things in the back have been cleaned up. The most visible change is the move protection. more⇛

MySQL on Debian is extremely annoying, especially if trying to setup a slave DB. Debian just keeps trying to be too clever and fucks everything up. more⇛

This is just great. I'm testing BigTPoker.com↗ with MSIE8 only to realize it doesn't fix a damn thing with CSS and just provides another array of nonsense. more⇛

After a very long delay the main BrainBrain has been updated. This is the version of the software used on BigTPoker.com↗. more⇛

I saw a massive software RNG comparisons in the last issue of C't. The one on your desk. replies⇛