9. The good and the bad

   Random stuff always seems to happen in a non-random fashion. When you're hanging low, for instance, more bad things seem to happen to you. I suppose that's partly the case with me, currently: I'm currently out of a job so money is an issue (not currently that ...

   read more

10. Ranting about PHP

    Came across this blog post on PHP today. Seems to me the author needs a fair amount of sleep and then a cop of coffee or two ...

    First,

    ... it all started with me trying to be clever with array_map and array_filter.

    Being clever is not a good thing. In my ...

    read more

11. Refactoring Infosys

    The last week or more has seen quite a bit of activity for Infosys - I've been frenzied, to put it mildly :) Almost every core class has had major changes and the framework is fundamentally different now. It's been lots of fun, lots of learning involved - here are some ...

    read more

12. PHP optimizing

    I've read various tips about optimizing PHP code and at first I happily took them in. Later on, having read other points of view, I started to wonder a bit about some of the optimizations and later still I realised that some things are not just dubious but plain ...

    read more

13. Twin of the bloodless model

    For a couple of weeks now I've been working on refactoring an MVC app in the BeWelcome code I'm working on. The reasons behind the refactoring are that 1) it's built on an old part of our codebase (yes, we have several separate parts and yes, it ...

    read more

14. Ryanair ...

    There can be just one judgement on this airline: they massively suck! They are so incredibly poor at customer relations your mind will almost refuse to believe it. And now, they have proven even worse at handling security. Here are the happy details of complete security-management failure:

    • You now HAVE ...

    read more

15. Personal take on MVC

    I've been working with MVC for a while now and it's generally a great idea. I first got acquainted with it when starting to work on the BeWelcome code (have a look at http://www.bevolunteer.org/trac/ if you're interested in an open source hospitality exchange ...

    read more

16. SVN status cheatsheet

    Recently I was looking for info on status messages from SVN and while googling for 'svn status cheatsheet' did turn up quite a few results, they were all useless: none of them went beyond the status messages you get in the first row from SVN when doing svn st. Seeing ...

    read more

17. PHP magic methods

    I can't ever recall the magic methods of PHP and sometimes google doesn't seem to display them as the first couple of hits, so for my own sake, a cheat-sheet of them with a few notes:

    • __construct(/* arguments */) : called on construction of the object
    • __destruct() : called when the ...

    read more

« Page 4 / 4