Rasmus Lerdorf

If you want to build an open source project, you can't let your ego stand in the way. You can't rewrite everybody's patches, you can't second-guess everybody, and you have to give people equal control.

When the world becomes standard, I will start caring about standards.

The file is a gzipped tar file. Your browser is playing tricks with you and trying to be smart.

This is your silly web browser doing that. The file is correctly named.

Personally, I tend to be more interested in security and performance-related issues than other things.

I've never used Sybase in my life. How would I make an intelligent decision about this versus that with a Sybase extension?

I'm OK with procedural code, and the web is a top-down type of problem. It makes sense to me that you have HTML, you spit out a bunch of HTML, then you call a function to do something and then call another function.