In the words of Rasmus Lerdorf (the inventor of PHP): “Why can’t we all speak 7-bit ASCII languages?” By this he was expressing how much of a pain in the ass it was to introduce decent Unicode handling in PHP, which is apparently coming in 5.1. I know the pain as I worked to correct […]
I got a new laptop and it’s wonderful to be able to connect to the Internet from basically anywhere through wireless, but unfortunately many places block port 25 in order to prevent spam. Fair enough, but I still want to send mail while I’m on the road, and webmail is so 90’s compared to Thunderbird. […]
Yet another oddity that is completely beyond my comprehension: getters/setters for components properties via Inspectable can be called BEFORE the instance is created and the constructor is called. What that means is that if you’re expecting, like I was, that the instance is properly initialized in those component getters/setters, well, you’re wrong, they’re not, and […]
It is possible that for some reason or other you will pick up an almost complete project for debugging or last minute work that has only swfs to work with. Please be careful and use your judgement wisely. A lot of freelancers (including me) don’t send their source to the client until final payment is […]
After posting the component swapper extension, Tek suggested modifying it accommodate upgrading from v1 to v2 components. I never really used the v1 components, so I hadn’t thought about it, but it does make a whole lot of sense. Should work with all components of the v1 series but tested only with set 1 and […]