“Bill doesn’t really want to review your spec, he just wants to make sure you’ve got it under control. His standard M.O. is to ask harder and harder questions until you admit that you don’t know, and then he can yell at you for being unprepared. Nobody was really sure what happens if you answer the hardest question he can come up with because it’s never happened before.”
.. Is Ballmer going to be another John Sculley, who nearly drove Apple into extinction because the board of directors thought that selling Pepsi was good preparation for running a computer company? The cult of the MBA likes to believe that you can run organizations that do things that you don’t understand.
Approximate/fuzzy string search in PHP [Leave a comment]
It allows you to specify a Levenshtein edit distance treshold, i.e. an error limit for a match. For example, a search for kamari with a treshold of 1 errors would match kamari,kammari, kaNari and kamar but not kaNar.
Fuse.js: Lightweight fuzzy-search, in JavaScript
If you need a lightweight, fast way to search through a list of items, and allow misspellings, then Fuse.js is for you. Forget all server-side logic. This is done all in JavaScript. Check out the demo, and look at the examples below.
.. Note: the pattern string cannot exceed 32 characters
BitBucket Sync
This script keeps your website in sync with the updates made on a BitBucket project.
It is intended to be used on a web-server which is reachable from the internet and which can accept POST requests coming from BitBucket servers. It works by getting all the updates from a BitBucket project and applying them to a local copy of the project files.
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