February 2004
When viewing your source code, can you tell the difference between zero and an upper case O? What about an upper case i and a lower case l? If not, try ProFont, available on Mac, Linux and Windows... Read More
Traffic statistics have a huge impact on a Website's success, and Apache provides one of the most powerful and flexible logging features available today. Blane explains the nitty-gritty of... Read More
Currently refactoring WACT’s template parser, the SourceFileParser. Refactoring began with Revision 1.39. The SourceFileParser the effectively the center of WACT’s template engine, so not... Read More
If project documentation is the last thing on your mind - and your priority list - you need NDoc, an XML documentation facility with both C# and VB.NET support. Chris shows how easy it is to use in... Read More
David’s done it and Steve’s done it so I’m going to follow suit: what kind of things would you like to see covered in this blog? I’m not just fishing for suggestions, I also... Read More
Simple Test hit the final milestone before a stable release today (well last night I think). The release file is up on Sourceforge. Simple Test is the unit test framework for PHP. Not only is it... Read More
…posted by davidjmedlock: If you’re not using some sort of version control, you should be. “Why,” you ask? “Why not,” is my reply. Most of us do not have access to... Read More
Something I see fairly often in PHP, where OOP / classes are concerned; $options = array ( 'name' => 'Harry Fuecks', 'favoritecolors' => array ('red','green','blue'), 'favoritefoods' => array (... Read More
As the job market becomes more competitive, you may consider official qualifications. But, beware! IT certification isn't all it's cracked up to be. Andy helps prepare you for the realities of... Read More
Just thought I’d highlight the great work being done by the guys at PHP Application Tools. Not only have they been helping out PHP developers for ages now with their various pat* projects... Read More
…posted by davidjmedlock: Have you ever noticed developers making statements about how well various operators and functions perform when compared with other functions and operators? For... Read More
An essential little .NET coded app I now can’t live without is CommandBar, which embeds a command line window into a running Windows Explorer. It can even synchronize with Explorer, so no more... Read More
Often we find entries in our web logs which we seek to supress or block based on the fact that these entries may be skewing true statistics. Most web log analysis software offers exclusion filters to... Read More
…posted by davidjmedlock: You’ve probably noticed my latest article – Data Structures 4: Queries. I promise this is the last one about data structures. You can look forward to... Read More
