Amazon Links

Astute readers will notice that I now have Amazon related links (books, actually) on some entries (spun out of my Amazon’s Web Services post). Hopefully they’re not too intrusive; I have them limited to a max of three results right now, and they’ll only show up on blog entries that I specifically keyword. All done… Continue reading Amazon Links

php|tropics

A bit over a year ago I blogged about the PHP Cruise. Well, this year there’s another PHP conference organized by the folks at php|architect, though it’s not a cruise this time: php|tropics! It’s in Cancun, Mexico, from May 11 through 15. Now, if I only had a few grand lying around and could convince… Continue reading php|tropics

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PHP Suggest

Over on php.net, they announced a full implementation of a search field suggestion box: The function list suggestions we started to test a year ago seemed to be working better as some bugs were found and fixed, so it was time to make the result available on all php.net pages.   Whenever you type something… Continue reading PHP Suggest

PHP code rant

This is a mini-rant on PHP that can be safely avoided by non geek types. This post over on PHP Everywhere caught my attention, vis-a-vis programming semantics and practice. Basically, inside a switch statement, someone placed the default block before the case blocks and was surprised when that default condition executed, and the “expected” case… Continue reading PHP code rant

MT Comment

What with the current brouhaha over Movable Type‘s licensing and payment scheme for the version 3 software (what, you want a link? Feh, go Google it), all I can really say is, damn it’s sure handy to have written my own system. 🙂 I notice that a lot of people are seriously considering migrating to… Continue reading MT Comment

Searching and Minimum Word Length

Mike Boone, in the comments section of yesterday’s entry on searching (“Updated Search“), correctly points out that searching my site for a word that is less than four characters in length (like “php” or “cow”) does not work—no results are returned. Obviously, since I write about PHP on occasion, this is untenable. The problem is… Continue reading Searching and Minimum Word Length

PHP Development Hint

Here’s a general hint for PHP development: A quick and easy way to check for syntax or compile errors without uploading the PHP script to the Web server and testing online through a browser is via the command line. It’s obvious, and I don’t know why I didn’t think of this sooner, but I’ve been… Continue reading PHP Development Hint

Rasmus is the Man

… Rasmus Lerdorf, that is, the creator and godfather of PHP. He’s got an article on the Oracle Technology Network titled “Do You PHP?” that’s definitely worth a read. Here’s a sample: What it all boils down to is that PHP was never meant to win any beauty contests. It wasn’t designed to introduce any… Continue reading Rasmus is the Man