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}
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I like the idea of this series, but what if you provided the answer 24h after you posted the question? I mean, let's see what the readers think about it? It might bring pretty interesting answers.
Submitted by Mihai Baboi on Thu, 04/07/2011 - 06:24
PermalinkNice suggestion Mihai I might do that with the next question and see what happens. Would you belive that I once asked this question to a room of developers who used PHP every day and only 30% got it right?
Submitted by philipnorton42 on Thu, 04/07/2011 - 13:18
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