Implicit Evaluation with PHP Archives: History
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5 February 2007
What is Programming?
Programming is a lot more mundane than you might think. In fact, it might be so mundane that it’s expendable.
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6 December 2006
Debugging JavaScript
In the hey-day of Internet Explorer 5 and Office 2000, there was a nice application called Microsoft Script Debugger. In place of the Error on Line 188 statuses Internet Explorer would give you, it would drop you into a debugger which held remote control over Internet Explorer as you stepped through the code, watched variables, […]
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14 September 2006
Objects and Arrays in PHP
In PHP, Objects and Arrays are very similar. Objects can easily be cast as an array with get_object_vars, and a simple foreach loop can easily construct an stdObject from an array. Their similarities mean there is little you can do with one that you cannot do with the other. Some of the differences (at first […]
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6 September 2006
Any Problem in Computer Science Can Be Solved with Another Layer of Indirection
I spent a portion of Labor Day weekend working on new controls for Fortitude Forms. But reflecting back on it now, two things have shocked me: How easy it is to write controls, and how many layers of indirection Fortitude Forms has.
I have always argued against steep initial learning curves. The payoff has to be […]