Programming
Learn to say “No”
All too often i receive emails or inquiries from people on how much would some website that they imagined would cost and how long it would take for me to implement it. Because this blog lately become more popular then ever before, i started to receive even more of these inquiries . One might say [...]
A lesson to be learned in software development
I’ve just read a great and insightful article on Wired about the development of a game that was never finished and it was canceled after 12 years of development. The game is Duke Nukem Forever and the article is called: Learn to let go: How success killed Duke Nukem The situation from the article happens [...]
Interest for PHP is declining ?
Google Insights for Search is an interesting tool, it allows you to take a look at what people are serching for in different parts of the world and how is the volume of search evolving for a keyword in a specific part of the world or worldwide. I played a bit with Google Insights and [...]
How to scrape webpages using PHP and XPath
If you need to extract information from remote webpages you can read this article about how to do it with PHP and XPath. The autor explains how extracting information can be very easy and it can be done in no time (less then 5 minutes) with the mentioned tools and without the use of regular expressions.
How to generate PDF files dynamically using PHP and Haru
An excellent tutorial on how to create PDF files dynamically using PHP and Haru written by Will Sinclair. And here is a quote from the article that grabbed my attention “When it comes to working with different file formats, PHP is like a Swiss Army knife: it has a tool to handle almost anything you [...]
Tips for improving your PHP programming skills
Smashing Magazine published an article with 10 tips to improve your PHP programming skills. They claim to be advanced tips but i tend to disagree. Every PHP programmer with 1-2 years of experience, somewhere around mid-level should know these things. But nevertheless the article is worth reading, if you did not know those things you [...]
A comparation between Typo3 and Drupal
Working in web development often requires the use of different CMS packages that have certain advantages or disadvantages. At work Typo3 and Drupal are the most often used content management systems. I will make a short comparation from a web developers perspective on these two packages. Learning to work with them I first started to [...]
PHP support may be on the way in Google App Engine
Rumor has it that Google is adding support for a new runtime language for Google App Engine. If you take a closer look at their roadmap you can see that for sure another runtime language will be added. But which one will be ? Java or PHP ? According to some reports, Google said that [...]
Controversed namespace separator for PHP namespaces
The PHP development team decided to use the backslash (\) as namespace separator in future releases of PHP (up from 5.3) The decision wasn’t very welcomed by the community and numerous people already started basing PHP again. i feel that some of the people involved are beeing very single minded on this. I think time [...]
PHP sucks? No. Programmers suck!
I was reading someday on a blog that PHP sucks, today i read it on another blog. It doesn’t matter on what blogs. They don’t deserve to be mentioned here. People with no or very little programming skills tend to write these blog entries either to mask their incompetence either to promote another programming language. [...]
