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Crushing Code and Shaving Chars
Who has heard of Code Golf? I hadn’t up until about 3 years ago when I first stumbled across some on Stack Overflow. I faintly recall the horror as I gazed upon some of the most cryptic code ever – … Continue reading
Posted in Just for fun, PHP
Tagged brevity, code golf, golfing, minification, php, stackoverflow
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Abusages in JavaScript
Upon reading a recent blog entry by Brendan Eich (creator of the JavaScript language), I found myself falling under a bit of conviction when he described a popular use of || (OR) and && (AND) as an “abusage”. I also … Continue reading
Posted in JavaScript
Tagged AND, condition, evaluation, expression, JavaScript, OR, short-circuit evaluation, tricks
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n Parts for Sum in PHP
I was bouncing around on Stack Overflow, answering questions here, voting on questions and answers there, when I came across a question on how to construct an array of arbitrary size, whose members add up to an explicit sum. This … Continue reading
“Windows 8 is too hard to turn off”
Did you know the Windows 8 operating system is too hard to shut down? In fact, it’s a “pain-in-the-rump,” according to Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols of ZDNet.com. I must be honest – when I read those words I just thought to myself, … Continue reading
First Impression of Windows 8 (Developer Preview)
I downloaded the developer preview of Windows 8 a few weeks ago so that I could begin playing with Internet Explorer 10. After setting up a new partition and loading the OS into a dual-boot environment, I was quickly up … Continue reading
Sometimes jQuery is (not) the Answer
It’s difficult to say, as much as I love jQuery I must admit that it is at times the wrong route to take when addressing a problem. While looking over a few questions on StackOverflow today I came across a … Continue reading
Todays WTF Moment with CodeIgniter, MySQL and PHP
As routine as an oddly-twitching finger sabotaging any attempt to use your mouse, strange things may take place with your environment, tools, or code. Today I was working on setting up a very small project with CodeIgniter when I came … Continue reading
Posted in CodeIgniter, MySQL, PHP
Tagged Autoload, Bug, CodeIgniter, Connection, Database, Error, MySQL, php, Version
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Using Views in Kohana 3
What is a View? If you’ve never worked with Kohana Views in the past, they’re not hard to understand. Controllers handle most of your logic, Models handle the database communication, and Views handle the presentation of the data (generally-speaking). In … Continue reading