I’m not sure which fact is more hilarious (or sad): that I have a three-line function with twenty-eight lines of comments, or that the function…
Totally unrelated to The Vampire Rule,1 today I got a practical lesson in PHP request precedence. I’ve seen for years recommendations not to use the…
Especially because of all the work I’ve been doing in Drupal, I’ve switched most of my development efforts away from Perl solutions and started working mostly with PHP. The «Perl versus PHP» flamewars on the Internet are all over the place and usually full of nonsense. I really don’t want to add to that. In fact, I’m pretty pleased with PHP. The language has come a long way since it’s days as PHP/FI. I’ve come to appreciate its variable scoping scheme, which caused me fits when I first started porting code from Perl to PHP.