Back in October, I was lucky enough to speak on the Sunday at PHPNW09. Personally I think it was a mediocre presentation and needs lots of work – but it was my first “proper” speaking gig. I received a lot of feedback and know what I’d do differently in future (Less about myself, more flowing [...]
I can’t think of any practical applications apart from the one given over at Web Developer Plus – but this is too cool not to share.
The basic example was that if you’re running a movie review blog, categories for genre and tags for actors/actresses may work, it would be nicer to have a taxonomy of [...]
I found my old minidisc player the other day, and I can’t stop listening to it. The sound it produces is so much better than what I’m used to nowadays. I checked out my itunes library and as I expected, a lot of songs in there were at 128kbps. That’s bearable but I also discovered [...]
After reading that PHP6 might drop support for short tags, I decided to update my main Codeigniter project to use full php tags. I didn’t want to have to go through each file and update them by hand, so I set about automating it. I managed to do it using grep, awk and perl, and [...]
