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Lack of elegance is viral
I wrote PHP for awhile, and it isn't as bad as one might think. In many ways it is fantastic (made for the web, anyone can get into it), but yes, elegance isn't up there.
Sam Ruby: Filtering Feeds with XSLT
It is small things like this that are always a pain. The O'Reilly Radar always seems to come across the Planet feed screwed up.
Java 7 Idea: Extensible Strings
I always hate final. You don't know if you thought of everything. I know that with String is it a bit different due to the security concerns of writing an EvilString extends String, but Joe has the right idea there