Just a small post here to share a bit of benchmarking I just did. In Javascript, the boolean operators (|| and &&) behave a little differently to how many people expect. In PHP, the result of using || or && is always a boolean:
// PHP:
$x = "hello" || false; // bool(true)
$x = false || 0; [...]
Here's a little snippet of the day for you. A regex to grab the names of functions from a PHP file.
/^\s*(?:(?:public|private|protected|static|abstract|final)\s+)*
function\s+&?([a-zA-Z_\x7f-\xff][a-zA-Z0-9_\x7f-\xff]*)/
Linebreak added for legibility.
If you were wanting to know the functions which exist in a particular class or file for an application or similar, you'd be better off using the PHP Reflection functions which are [...]
There seems to be quite some confusion when it comes to working with dates and Unix timestamps, especially when there are multiple timezones involved. I thought I would write up a bit of an explanation to help clarify the situation, and show some of the better ways to deal with this in PHP.
First up, some [...]
I just had a complete "duh" moment while thinking about the Javascript Packer thing I developed extended, as one is apt to do. I'd linked to the source code here in an earlier post (which also describes the functionality of the tool), but that's just way too static, man!
I've now created a public space (for [...]
A while back, Jeff Atwood spoke about the The Power of Defaults, arguing a good point that when creating a piece of software, the default options you choose as the designer have the power to make or break your product. This is true, however he took the argument further, revisiting an older post titled The [...]
Update: Further work has gone into this now. Read about it and get the bigger and better version here: Javascript Packer 2.0.
Recently, Bob showed me the very handy and free Javascript packer tool by Dean Edwards, aptly called "packer". Dean's javascript implementation has been ported to PHP5, PHP4, .NET, Perl and even Windows Scripting Host. [...]
I am a cursed person when it comes to computing. Things overheat, drives crash and data randomly gets irrecoverably erased. Yesterday my C drive became corrupted but because of an incredibly handy little tool, no ill effects were had.
The tool is PEbuilder (or BartPE), and it's your best friend when it comes to system recovery. [...]
Over the last few months, I have been getting a very strange error message sometimes when starting the Apache service on my XP machine. The service would fail to start and would report "Service specific error 1". A reboot would always fix it, but it was a real pain, especially if I was in the [...]