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…
My in-laws have a computer still running Windows 98. Basically, the computer can’t really handle anything else. Not a problem, because they just use it for some basic Internet stuff, and to load the pictures they make with their digital camera. Recently they moved their PC to another room. They asked me to reconnect it,…
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 Especially one specific entry immediately caught my eye: Native date class is withdrawn to prevent namespace conflict with PEAR’s date package.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…
OK, and now I have a problem. I want to reinstall my laptop, probably get LinSpire running on it. But how am I going to back up 26 gigabytes of data when you don’t have a DVD burner in your laptop?
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…
Just a short post since I am at work, but my goodness, look at this! Fully browserbased database design! Awesome!