Ten years ago Andi Gutmans and Zeev Suraski started to renew the old PHP3 core and in 1999 PHP4 was published and became really famous among Web-Developers. Bute 5 years late the successor was published and since then everyone is wondering why the era of PHP4 will end. Today is the magical 8-8-8 where PHP4 is no longer supported so for everyone who still runs PHP4 for some reason YOU SHOW NOW REALLY HAVE A LOOK AT THIS PAGE: www. ... Read more

I’m just preparing for some of my computer science exams and in one of my researches I found a really great B-Tree simulation and I’d like to share it: http://slady.net/java/bt/view.php …..

There’s so much work in this week that I can’t publish a article in the next days. But Natalie Jost from A List Apart just published a very nice article which you really should read if you’re (like me) working from home read on.. … you’ll like it.

The following code-snippet is a shell-script which does the following: Track the time for a block of shell commands Check if the time was less than x seconds (the example uses 10 seconds) If the block run through too fast the script waits/sleeps a few seconds Run all this within a loop so that the block of shell-commands is executed periodically I used the script combined with a PHP script which processes a queue. ... Read more

Lot’s of people like to write down things into lists, so that they can go through that list later and check whether everything was fine. Normally every recipe has a list ~ there’s always a list of ingredients at the beginning of the recipe. This short example shows how such a list can be processed in PHP. So why would you want to have something else than a array to hold your objects? ... Read more

hey that’s great - my mom never created something like this for me: check out on: http://fiveprime.org/hivemind/Tags/bento

Nice video I just found on some german page: Our wonderful nature by Tomer Eshed

Very often you create a object with a factory and before you really start using it, you check if your factory really created a object or returned NULL. Or maybe you have a method where a object is passed in and in this situation you’ll have to do this check also. Instead of typing the “if(object == null)” phrase again and again, you could use the Null-Object pattern, you’ll see that this can make some situations much clearer. ... Read more

The start is a bit lame but the end is just mind-blowing: Chronotopic Anamorphosis from Marginalia Project on Vimeo.