Ocassional Notes
02. July 2014
Javascript has a with statement that you probably shouldn’t use. I’ve never seen it used non-jokingly in JavaScript in the past decade or so, other than the occasional clever hack. Visual Basic also has a with statement, and I did see it used a fair bit in that realm, back in the day. In my experience it’s not something that developers are clamoring for.
14. June 2014
PHP 5.4 discontinued support for SQLite 2 databases. Updating an old legacy PHP application with a SQLite database to a new server is not very difficult.
12. June 2014
Having studied math in university, I am well aware that buying lottery tickets is a losing proposition. In Ontario, where I live, there is a lottery called 6/49. The rules are simple: pick 6 numbers out of 49 possibilities, if your choice matches a random choice of 6 numbers made in the draw, you win the jackpot. The probability of winning this is: