Yesterday was the last of a three day Java introduction course. Or actually, one day of UML, and two days of Java. And I have the feeling that I’ve wasted a lot of time. Luckily, my employer organized the training, so it hasn’t cost me any money. However, with a deadline quite near, it was…
In an on-going effort to keep a focus on security not just while coding but also in our support, earlier on we announced a special team dedicated to helping those who got hacked or otherwise affected by security problems. This team has been active mainly on the background so far, but now we’re also active…
Even though sites such as Bloglines are quite useful in their easy aggregation of RSS content, I felt I wanted a bit more control. One way is to write your own aggregator, but another is to install an existing system on your own server. From several sides, I got the tip to install Drupal and…
Right now, when I’m at work, I’m focussing fully on PHP development. This will be changing though. It has been decided that the whole backend system is going to be re-written in JSP. Luckily, instead of just firing the PHP coders and hiring JSP coders, my employer scheduled a JSP course in January. So I’ll…
Every single programmer must have had this problem at least once. You have unexpected behaviour and can’t find where the problem occurs. Finally, after a lot of searching, you find the problem in an if-condition. Instead of using ==, you used =. Stupid! Sean Coates posts about a nifty little trick to prevent this. Instead…
I was quite surprised when I saw the Changelog for the release of PHP 5.1.1. Especially one specific entry immediately caught my eye: Native date class is withdrawn to prevent namespace conflict with PEAR’s date package. This is quite a questionable decision, if you ask me. They have altered the programming language to fit an…
The following is a reply I wrote to an article by Filip de Waard. Unfortunately, commenting was turned off on his weblog, so I could not comment on his weblog. Here is my comment: buggy PHP scripts like PhpBB Of course, being part of the phpBB team, I want to respond to this. Though I…
After playing with it for a while, I actually had some work this week which would be a good project for using PHP5’s simpleXML functionality. I had to work with an existing standard which I had no control over, and which proved to become a bane of my existence though. The main problem of this…