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Understanding Project Scope – Work Breakdown Structure
Although the WBS is an important document to ensure that all team members have a good understanding of the project scope as it breaks the entire project down into bite-sized work packages, it does not seem to be granted a high level of importance in Singapore.
The people whom I have spoken to have seldom/never come across a WBS in the course of managing their projects. Considering the high delay rate of projects in Singapore (which I read about some time back, can’t remember from where though), perhaps we should pay more attention to documents and processes that can help us manage our projects better.
The discus accident
A little known fact is that I was the House Captain during my days in Secondary School. Unfortunately, an accident happened during my watch when one fo the boys got too enthusiastic and started practising his discus throws in an open field! One of the boys got a glancing blow to his head and all of us were horrified when the blood began to stream down. Thank goodness it was not a serious accident…
And this is why women from NZ need more support ;)
Why.use.periods?
When I have to put PHP aside for a while and do something else in Java or ASP, sometimes I will forget how to do certain things or which operators are used.
I have a particular beef with the “.” (period) being used as a concatenation operator because it is not as instinctive as the “+” or the “&” used in other languages. “+” makes sense because it implies addition, “&” also makes sense because the effect of the ampersand is similar to “and”. However, can someone tell me the reasoning behind “.”?
Sng Bao, Sng Bao
When I was walking back home during my Primary School days, I would invariably walk past an array of provision shops that displayed all their tempting wares along the walkway to seduce children into parting with their money. During those days when the weather was hot, I would open the freezer and get a “sng bao” (literally translated from Hokkien as “ice packet”) to enjoy on my journey home.
For those not in the know, a “sng bao” is a nunchuk-shaped plastic tubing containing a sweet frozen liquid that was undoubtedly accountable for countless sugar rushes and tooth decay. Think you should still be able to find it being sold at some places.
L-A terrified of cockroaches
In an accidental social experiment with a sample size of 1, I have concluded that children have an innate fear of cockroaches.
This morning, when L-A stepped out of my bedroom, she chanced upon one sluggish cockroach crawling along the hallway and she gave a hearty shout and scream and came running to me. She then proclaimed repeatedly, “Daddy bao bao! L-A scared!”
After the roach was exterminated, Esh and I were bemused. I would have thought that children would have no fear of anything encountered for the first time and maybe would have even picked it up to play with it (or even taste it!) Looks like there is either an instinctual fear or some subconscious social conditioning took place.
Why you might not want to use PHP’s rand() function anymore
If you have been using the rand() function in PHP to generate random numbers for use in your scripts, you might want to consider otherwise. Maybe C programmers might also want a rethink since the PHP rand() function is derived from libc…
Anyway, help is at hand with the mt_rand() function which is syntactically similar but it behaves better. The numbers generated will be more, erm, random. You will also be able to improve random number generation performance by 4 times! Incidentally, the “mt” in “mt_rand()” stands for Mersenne-Twister.
If you are interested in the mathematics behind this, go to this site.
Warning on the user of baby sling carriers
I never really gave this much thought, but the wrong use of baby sling carriers can cause distress or death to a baby. Check this article to see if you have been using a carrier the correct way!
Error Reporting Level for PHP Development
While there are a total of 11 error reporting levels for PHP, the combination I generally use the most often would be
error_reporting (E_ALL | E_STRICT);
The E_ALL argument is somewhat of a misnomer since it does not really include all error types. E_ALL does not include the E_STRICT error type which indicates whether your existing code (which runs perfectly now) may have a problem in future versions of PHP. Although its a never-ending race, developers should still try to future-proof their code as much as possible.