My initial move from PHP to C# almost killed me. In C#, arrays are just a simple structure with a static size and numeric index. In PHP, arrays are the duct tape of the universe!
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/61401/hidden-features-of-php/64475#64475
A curse
Jan 6
PC guys think while they are “trying” to sleep. A curse, as you know…
- Dad
Good Samaritan
Dec 12
An awesome email fresh from my inbox.
This email address was created solely to register automatically at thousands of forums for the purposes of spamming forums like yours. Remove my account and any other account registered with my email address!
You should also consider making the password requirements for your forum much more stringent.
Sincerely,
A Random Digilante [...]
A new project I’m working on favors Flex over AJAX and other web technologies. So what is a PHP developer to do? Well, its time we take a step away from the comfort of PHP, and try something different. Luckily, my project manager got me started with the krait snake book, Flex 3 by Oreilly, and there [...]
My 360 fell off my dresser last night, went vertical, and then to the floor. Luckily the Xbox is fine, but as most people know by now, if you move your Xbox 360 while a disc is spinning in the tray, it leaves a nice round scratch around the disc, leaving it unreadable.
However! You may [...]
I have been wondering why none of my printers work after the haul from school to home. I borked my second printer last week during the move back home for Thanksgiving.
After some research, it turns out that if you keep the ink cartridges inside the printer during transport, the cartridge contacts will rub from the [...]
Dreamhost PS Optimization
Nov 27
I have been wondering about this myself for a while. For many people, a Dreamhost PS is going to be the first private server they have ever dealt with.
If you’re on a budget, chances are you will max out the available resources on your PS at one time or another. Your server will go unresponsive. [...]
Fastest < Faster
Oct 19
Watch out, SmarterFox was recently renamed FastestFox. It seems like a blatant attempt to score traffic from old FasterFox users. FasterFox was a great extension to improve Firefox 2.0s speed, but is no longer available for Firefox 3.0. FastestFox does nothing to actually improve the speed of loading webpages.
Above you can test out one of the cooler features of VentStatus, updates on your cell phone. This lets anybody check the status of any server right on the cell phone without internet access. This feature is provided by the free service, Textmarks and is explained in more detail below. To see it in action, [...]
An overview of CodeIgniter
Oct 15
You’re interested in this whole new idea of frameworks, but why spend time on the learning curve when the system you already have in place works fine? Well, you might find yourself using the same functions or classes over and over; modifications of simple tools you would think would already exist in PHP.
Well, frameworks are [...]