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**robvalue** · February 23, 2015 at 7:56 am

Just finished my first assignment in my bookkeeping course. Yay!

Clueless Morgan · February 23, 2015 at 12:12 pm

(February 20, 2015 at 7:52 pm)Dragonetti Wrote: Thinking about buying Game of Thrones. That youtube video was interesting.

My bluray player froze on me while I was playing it so I've only seen the first 1:40 - but I've seen that 1:40 about four times... Wink

Will try to stream it on a computer...

**KevinM1** · February 23, 2015 at 6:46 pm

Remembering how frustrating it can be to offer programming help online. A PHP newbie on Stack Overflow has a pretty simple problem to solve, but they know nothing about database normalization. So, they want to put editable config data as single strings in a DB, then pull it out, use regular expressions to parse it, then use eval() to run it. The only bad/dumb thing they don't want to do is use globals.

So, I suggested that they look into database normalization and the basics of OOP (both of which are too broad to present as an answer on there) in order to rethink and restructure their architecture. Their response? "Thanks, but what you wrote really has nothing to do with my question. I didn't talk about normalization or OOP in my question." Head desk.

I guess my polite version of "You don't know the fundamentals of web programming, as evidenced by your assertion that the only two ways you can think about approaching the problem is either to hard code the config values in your PHP, or save them as unnormalized strings in a DB to ultimately be eval()'ed. You really need to learn the basics by at least glancing at what I recommended. That will give you the tools to fix your architecture" didn't sink in.

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**Esquilax** · February 23, 2015 at 7:09 pm

Procrastinating to avoid editing these five pages that I need to edit. Undecided

*Deidre* · February 23, 2015 at 8:02 pm

Changing my avatar.

c172 · February 23, 2015 at 8:10 pm

Contemplating a new avatar myself, but I lost it. I was looking up stars in comparison to the Sun, and came across a huge silvery star that I like. But I forget what it was called.

Also, NPRing (enpeearring?)

Clueless Morgan · February 23, 2015 at 8:48 pm

I want to paint something.

But I have no pastel paper.

And no money to buy any.

Also, I hate slow days at work.

**Esquilax** · February 23, 2015 at 8:50 pm

(February 23, 2015 at 8:10 pm)c172 Wrote: Also, NPRing (enpeearring?)

No no, that's when you cover yourself with pears. Or when you pee on someone's earrings, depending on the context.

Dystopia · February 23, 2015 at 8:50 pm

I changed mine too (avatar), I'm Clint Eastwood now

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