Having been doing battles with things like Internet Explorer 4 (yes, I’m that old), it seems to me like Microsoft have really gotten themselves into a bind when it comes to Edge. With a user-agent string like this: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 …
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This is, perhaps, obvious to most PHP developers. But it came somewhat as a surprise to me. Using is_numeric () for validating a WordPress version string, such as ‘4.7’, does not seem to work very well when WordPress introduces minor releases such as ‘4.7.1’. Since …
So using SimpleXML in PHP is possibly one of the worst hells of typecasting and data extraction procedures one can encounter, or close to it 🙂 But more the point, you don’t need to walk down that road alone, enter JSON. In the simplest of …
Dag 1: [Jag] Hej, det här ni släppte i fredags fungerar inte. Jag får inget svar från servern när jag testar. [MS] Är du säker på att det inte fungerar? [Jag] Ja, jag är helt säker. Jag har testat 10 ggr nu och det blir …
Quite some time ago, we needed to move a customer’s MySQL 4 server from one location to another. In the process, we figured we’d update the server to use some moderately modern version like MySQL 5.0 at least. Also, if we were to have any …
Using jQueryMobile for a fairly lightweight “mobile site”, I wonder what all you experts say about selection sets. A (long) list of countries for example. To prevent excessive delays, I now split country selection in two screens. The first one shows A-Ö (A-Z for you …
So NetBeans 7.x is out since a few months. With many new functions, new and updated plugins, a lot of bugfixes, etc. Fantastic! Go NetBeans! And just because I’m a sucker for punishment, I open up a new PHP project, select a WordPress site where …
When phpMyAdmin is installed, the default session timeout value is too low for many users, making your phpMyAdmin session expire too soon. One could argue that a low session timeout value is a good idea from a security perspective. If you do not think this …
When I began using version control system software, the world was mostly stuck with RCS, if you wanted to use free software that is. Next came CVS, PRCS, SVN (Subversion), Bazaar, Git, Mercurial, and many others. There were, of course, also many commercial version control …