A colleague just called me over with a bit of stumper. He’d created a hard-coded array of numbers (the reason isn’t really important) and was seeing some strange behaviour. The array looked something like this:
$foo = array
(
‘a’ => 01,
‘b’ => 02,
‘c’ => 03,
‘d’ => 04,
‘e’ => 05,
‘f’ => 06,
‘g’ => 07,
‘h’ => 08,
‘i’ => 09,
‘j’ [...]
Way behind the curve once gain, I stumbled upon DomainTools the other day. It has all sorts of handy things for web developers (eg. a very detailed whois), many of which are free (although some of these require registration).
Some similar tools (and some extra ones) are to be found at dnsstuff.com.
I’ve been using cURL (through PHP) to build a sort of proxy for a project I’m working on. I need to parse the returned headers (to recover the HTTP status), so had included a very simple script to do so. It had worked fine in the past, but for some reason barfed in this case. [...]
An interesting piece from IBM on making sites that make heavy use of Ajax more web-like.
I’ve been too busy for the last few months to put any time into the projects that prompted me to find it in the first place, but I noticed today that the Rapid Application Developement framework CakePHP has finally come out of beta.
Congratulations to the developers, and I hope to have time in the not-too-distant [...]