Let the April Fools Stunts Begin!
As you are probably aware, today is April 1st a.k.a. April Fools Day. A day when people try to make fools of other people. If you weren’t aware or forgot, you may have already been tricked into believing or doing something crazy and didn’t even realize it. Techie types are stereotyped as being boring, straight-laced, and basically no fun. Today is a day to show a different side. And who else to start the day off than Zend.
Yes, the company in charge of our beloved PHP programming language has bolted out of the gate with today’s first joke. I was verifying the version of PHP on my dev server via the phpinfo() function when I noticed something strange about the PHP logo. At first, I thought my server may have been hacked or infected with a virus. So, I checked where the logo image was coming from and, sure enough, it was coming from the php.net site. So, I went to PHP’s site (http://www.php.net) and the logo doesn’t look quite right there either. Have a look for yourself. I contacted PHP but was told that the logo was supposed to look that way. Yeah…right! Oh, well, that’s only my first fooling of the day. Good one, Zend! If you find any other techie site’s pulling pranks today, let’s hear about ‘em in the comments section.