Note to myself: unit testing is a great thing and I should do it more, I plan to do it more. But, unit testing is not enough... What we need for web applications (or complex dynamic web sites if you prefer) would be something like this: the TEST program…...
Joel on Software’s latest bewildering article advocates correct use of the – often misunderstood – Hungarian notation: “Making Wrong Code Look Wrong“. Basically, calling a variable , etc…...
From Joel's foreword to Mike Gunderloy's "Coder to Developer": When I got out of the army, I headed off to college and got a degree in Computer Science. Now I really knew everything. I knew more than everything, because I had learned a bunch of…...
Is it me or doesn't Windows even include any form of a grep tool? Not even a full grep, but just search and replace of litteral string in files? Not even in recursive, nor in multiple files, just in one damn file? Something I can automate from the…...
XML-RPC is a spec and a set of implementations that allow software running on disparate operating systems, running in different environments to make procedure calls over the Internet. It's remote procedure calling using HTTP as the transport and XML as…
I realized today that PHP's state of corporate underratedness is probably is similar to SQL's state of corporate underuse. You could think it's because these technologies are not object oriented enough... You could also think that they have been so…...
My real life has been holding me off from blogging and all that stuff for the last month. However, as I was sick and staying at home for the last two days, as there was nothing on TV (I really oughta get that satellite dish!), I pulled out my…...
There are two approaches to development. Some regard it as a science and try to bend every development into a process called "Software Engineering". Others regard it as an art, also known as "coding". :P Unfortunately, the former…...
Just stumbled upon yet another funky IE6 "bug" (if I may say so... When you want to automatically refresh to another page, you send a header that looks something like: Refresh:0;url=http://blah.blah.blah The funky thing is that if that header…...
Via John Lim: Tony Stubblebine has a nice article teaching Five Habits for Successful Regular Expressions [dead links]: What? You can put comments into regexps? Why hasn't anybody said so before? :?: Worse: why isn't anybody actually doing it??? Hum...…...