Mature, refined and elegant. Almost, but not entirely unlike the geek equivalent of a good wine.
PHP’s flexible variable typing makes determining a value to be empty… well, see for yourself. Check out this diff for the NotEmpty validator in Zend Framework.
That can’t be right, surely! 
Update: the unit tests reveal the intent behind the odd-looking code change. Now the validator can optionally be very specific about what is considered empty.
Who’da thought that
During an IM chat with Daniel White he showed me his astonishing
Well deserved recognition for a true genius and nice guy.
Last Sunday, after getting bored implementing error handling in the Ruby version of the food journal, I decided to take a stab at the
Today, I achieved a milestone. My program can load and execute the Orbit virtual machine, run a sequence of frames and reports a score of -1.0 when the controlled satellite’s fuel is exhausted.
Browse the code on GitHub. Remember, I’m still learning, so don’t expect anything miraculous!
I’m not by any stretch of the imagination an
So it is with some pleasure that I’ve decided to take the plunge and begin studying the
My goal is to learn the lanugage by porting an existing application (the food journal written in PHP that I recently used to play with Zend Framework) first to the Ruby language, then to the web application framework
As usual, I embark on this project by
Update 12-Jul-2009: Browse the code on Github
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The Zend Framework is a long-established and well-respected set of libraries for building PHP web applications. I’ve not used it before and I’ve recently become interested in learning more about it so I’ve decided to have a play. Rather than start entirely from scratch, I’m going to re-use the database schema of a famous dive-logging web application and see how much effort is involved in re-implementing the basics; logging in and displaying a page of dives.
More importantly, how much fun is it to work with?
Update 12-Jul-2009: Browse the code on Github
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Now my
Method follows.
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What could I do with this?
CREATE TABLE child (
id BIGINT NOT NULL AUTO_NUMBER PRIMARY KEY
, parent_table VARCHAR(64) NOT NULL
, parent_id BIGINT NOT NULL
, FOREIGN KEY parent_table REFERENCES INFORMATION_SCHEMA.tables(name)
, FOREIGN KEY parent_id DEREFERENCES parent_table(id)
) ENGINE=fantasy COMMENT='Don\'t run this at home, folks!';
“No love, they only blow
Yay! Snow in Sheffield again. Piccies just as soon as my camera batteries charge. Oh dear, my camera has failed doesn’t seem to like the cold! Anyways, a couple of pics from out front and back.
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The following code works on Linux (3 rows returned) but not on Windows, which returns a SQL syntax error citing LIMIT "0", "3". See PHP bug 35801 closed as “bogus” by an idiot on Christmas Day 2005 for the
Limit statements cannot be part of prepared statements.
Anyone care to confirm?