Dennis Ritchie Passes Away At Age 70 (Father Of C And UNIX)

Dennis Ritchie?! Who is Dennis Ritchie? Will be the first tought of many.

Dennis Ritchie is the inventor of the computer programming language C. In my eyes he has done even more work for the world than Steve Jobs did. (Sure he had a good eye for how things should look.)

Next to his job for creating the programming language C he was also known as one of the key-developers for UNIX. From those two positions he has had quite some influence on how todays Operating Systems look like and function.

Wired News: Dennis Ritchie: The Shoulders Steve Jobs Stood On
Los Angeles Times: Dennis Ritchie dies at 70; computer scientist helped develop Unix
New York Times: Dennis Ritchie, Trailblazer in Digital Era, Dies at 70

Solving OAuth problems on my blog

Since yesterday it seemed that there occured some errors. Most likely when you tried to login or post a comment. This was due to the OAuth library included with several plugins and all tried to declare the same classes and functions. For now this is solved by adding a class_exist check in the library.

I will lookup the OAuth project and check how we can incorporate these suggestions in to the library.

Old:

class OAuthConsumer {
	public $key;
	public $secret;

	function __construct($key, $secret) {
		$this->key = $key;
		$this->secret = $secret;
	}

	function __toString() {
		return "OAuthConsumer[key=$this->key,secret=$this->secret]";
	}
}

New:

if (!class_exists("OAuthConsumer", false)) {
	class OAuthConsumer {
		public $key;
		public $secret;

		function __construct($key, $secret) {
			$this->key = $key;
			$this->secret = $secret;
		}

		function __toString() {
			return "OAuthConsumer[key=$this->key,secret=$this->secret]";
		}
	}
}

Note lines 1 and 15.

Lack of competition a bigger threat than piracy, says Miramax CEO

Giving a Media Mastermind keynote session, Lang reiterated Miramax’s strategy of enabling customers to access content anytime and anywhere across multiple platforms, from physical discs, to streaming services, to ultimately buying content in a digital cloud. Lang claimed that ultimately Miramax will load over 300 of its library of 700 titles—including Pulp Fiction, Chicago and Shakespeare In Love—each month for OTT service users.

“We believe that cross-platform is key to growing the digital transactions business,” Lang told his audience in Cannes. “We believe that all [the] different platforms can be complementary and co-exist together.”

via MIPCOM 2011: Lack of competition a bigger threat than piracy, says Miramax CEO | MIPCOM 2011 | Rapid TV News.