Resources are passed by reference
When copying one resource to another, you’re actually creating a reference to the original resource, this is not an actual copy. See the example.
Proposal for PEAR::Structures_DataGrid column formatter
This posting outlines a proposal for an addition to the PEAR package Structures_DataGrid. More specifically it concernes the formatter method of the Structures_DataGrid_Column class.
Discount on the Zend PHP certification exam
Expires August 31, $75 off the “normal” price of $200. For details and purchase, see the PHP certification section of the Zend.com site. Zend are celebrating the 600th PHP certified engineer, so they’ve decided on this discount. Which is nice. $200 has always seemed a bit more than an open-source developer is willing to pay […]
Coldplay live
Amazing!
My certification story
Two stories from guys that have already passed the PHP cert exam.
Working for a small company
I stumbled upon a nice blog posting about some trends concerning the small companies out there…
30 seconds AJAX
30 seconds AJAX intro from the PHP creator Rasmus Lerdorf.
Wikimania
Wikis are great! Get yourself one!
Javascript includes – yet another way of RPC-ing
Javascript files can be included and executed on the fly. What this means is that HTTP requests are made without the use of XMLHttpRequest or iframes. This post talks more about including external Javascript files.
PacktPub donates royalties to open-source projects
Blane of SP blogs about Packt’s initiative to pay royalties percentage to open-source projects.
Open source – BBC and Google
Open source by example – BBC and Google release open source projects.
What a Wonderful World!
An alternative spelling to Louis Armstrong’s “What a Wonderful World”. W3 (What a Wonderful World) I see trees of #00ff00, #ff0000 roses too… hmm, it sounded funnier in my head 🙂
Another PHP cert blog
Today I came across a new Zend PHP certification blog.
Certification press release from Zend
Here it is » Major corporations benefit from Zend certified engineers. Every press release polishes the truth at least a little bit, but nevertheless this one sounds promising .
HTML entities converter
Often when you post code (in WordPress for example), you need to manually convert your >s into >s, <s into <s and so on. It can become tedious at times, so today I created this HTML entities converter tool to help me out.
toLowerCase() bookmarklet
I was reading an amazon review and unfortunatelly the person has posted in all uppercase. I tried to read but after a few lines I got bored, all uppercase text is harder to read, not to mention it is considered shouting on the web. So I thought “what if I had a button or something… […]
getElementById(‘description’) in IE
document.getElementById() in IE has some issues. The problem can be spotted when you have a page element with an id “description” and meta tag with a name “description” IE considers the meta tag to be the one that should be returned by getElementById(). Which is, of course, wrong. ID is an ID and name is […]
The phpBB book is out
Since this monday (May 16th) the book I’ve been working on is now out! It’s pretty exciting … It’s a book about the open-source forum package phpBB. Read the post, then rush to Amazon…
ZCE certificate
Wo-hoo! The printed certicate found its way to my wall 🙂
Nathalie
Nathalie, the beautiful baby girl, my second daughter, was born this Sunday.
Building Online Communities with phpBB – coming soon
Good news today! I got an email from my editor saying that the phpBB book will be published soon. Yes, I’ve been working on a phpBB book for some time, it’s written and completed now and undergoing final proofreading. So it means that in a few weeks it will be published! It’s pretty exciting… Here’s […]
PHP certification books – sample chapters
php|architect’s “Zend PHP Certification Practice Book” http://www.phparch.com/cert/ZPCPB_sample.pdf Zend’s official PHP certification study guide http://phpcertguide.com/resources/sample.pdf
Alexa 500 server stats (the code)
The Alexa stats are described in this posting here. I just wanted to share the code if anyone’s interested. < ?php ini_set("max_execution_time", 2400); // 40 minutes of execution time require_once 'config.php'; // just has the path to PEAR require_once 'PEAR.php'; require_once 'DB.php'; require_once 'HTTP/Request.php'; $request = &new HTTP_Request('', array('allowRedirects' => true, ‘timeout’ => 10)); // […]
Alexa 500 server stats
I’ve read this SitePoint blog post today where the author wonders about the popularity of IIS vs Apache as server software. There is Netcraft as a reliable source of course, but the question was more of “How about the big sites?” and examples of big sites are those in the Alexa ranking. So I took […]
Zend Certified Engineer
Yep, it’s a fact. Here’s the proof. I took the exam almost a month ago but waited so that most of the details are erased from my memory, so that I don’t accidentally violate the exam’s rules which state that you should not reveal information about the exam. So I took the exam at a […]
