Wow, talk about a niche market ready for exploitation.
I was talking a client today, and my first question to her was the first question I try to get most of my clients to answer: “If you don’t do this, if you don’t spend the money and the time, what’s the worst that could happen?”
“The worst [...]
One very rare problem that hits some people with Drupal is that it hangs on installation, and never gets anywhere. Using Firebug, I was able to track the problem down to jQuery, then ripped out the minimized copy of jQuery, stuck in a full copy, and re-ran the install, which immediately revealed the bug.
Drupal was [...]
Underwhelmed by the Symfony install documentation
22 May
Posted by Elf Sternberg as Linux, PHP, programming
I’ve been helping a close friend with her website, which is written in rails. She admits that’s a mistake, now, because it shares database tables with a PHP application, and the communication between the two has always less than stellar. I’ve been looking into her current major problem, but while I’ve been [...]
I was reading through the Wordpress source code, trying to figure out a problem for a contractor, when I saw the function compact(). When I saw it I boggled, read the description, and shook my head.
Compact() takes a list of variable names as strings, and returns a hash of those variable names and their values. [...]
