My preferred design approach for the ‘code-colouriser’ would be for it to filter a PHP script through a suitably trained finite state machine (FSM). After a bit of rummaging in the online PHP manual I was pleased to find that PHP 5 has a rich, if poorly documented, set of stream functions [link] and, [...]
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I was a bit glum to see that prettyprinter.de [link] seems to be broken after its css refit with round corners…
PHPDocumentor [link] is okay but a bit, well, on the ‘complete’ side and for quick code samples the css approach is a bit of a faff…
GeShi [link] is good but it does some pretty mad [...]
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This Mac Hack greatly speeds up the Mac Mini OS X experience.
I partitioned the roomy 320Gig Minimax into 2 equal partitions and used the excellent SuperDuper![link] to duplicate over my OS X setup from the Mac Mini’s internal HD. I plan to put M$ XP onto the other partition and Ubuntu onto to the [...]
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On Thursday January 11 Slashdot [link] argued over the inherent shoot-yourself in the foot insecurities of PHP when coded by the naive. This reminded me of a previous real life argument and on-line rambling [link]. I have found myself using a number of more secure PHP programming idioms along with PHP’s rag-bag of sanitizing functions [...]
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This simple theme is intended to evoke memories of computing in the 80’s as well as work on those crappy internet explorer browsers.
Many thanks to OLD-COMPUTERS for the images.
Tested on:
Firefox (Mac & PC)
Safari (Mac)
Opera (Mac & PC)
IE 5.2 (Mac)
IE 6 (PC)
IE 7 (PC)
It is interesting to see how slooow IE7 is to rescale the images [...]
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Previous musings on the random image class [link] seemed to result in a toss-up between enforcing structure in the image names or structuring the image names in code, but…
The glob() function seems to allow the best of both of these worlds. Given a path and a file name pattern to match it returns an array [...]
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A Finite State Machine [link] is a way of making a decision or modeling behaviour. Although it is a core concept in computer science and in particular the theory of computing, it is probably more widely known from its use in the Quake games [link]. Conceptually it is a bit like a flow chart and [...]
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Confining class code and associated files to its own directory is a convenient and flexible way of organising your code. Unfortunately maintaining a long list of include files is not.
However, PHP 5 offers the __autoload($class_name) function for you to redefine to automatically load class definition files based upon your path structure [link].
Future test harness examples [...]
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