Teaching an old PHP application to talk Spanish, Chinese & Hebrew
IntroductionOver the last few months I've had the dubious pleasure of converting an older PHP application to Spanish, Chinese and Hebrew. Although painful at times, it was, in the end, a very rewarding...
View ArticleSearch and Replace in Eclipse Using Regular Expressions
Recently, whilst trying to make an old PHP application W3C compliant, I realised that none of the ampersands separating the GET parameters in the links that the application was generating were written...
View ArticleUsing Stylizer with Drupal
A few months ago a colleague mentioned Skybound's Stylizer for CSS development. It looked awesome in the video demo so I was quite eager to try it out. About one month ago I was tasked with re-theming...
View ArticleBye bye Zend Framework. Hello Laravel!
I like Zend Framework 1. Forms are a little awkward, but have robust validation and reasonable formatting options. Plug-ins and helpers are a bit of a pain, as there seems to be several different...
View ArticleProgrammer Insults
“Snapper Head” — Someone who has blatantly disregarded the company’s coding guidelines, causing another programmer (probably the one who called them a “Snapper Head”) to waste several hours rectifying...
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