PHP is a kludged-together, ugly mess of a language. But its documentation is quite superlative: practically every function has documentation written in a more-or-less standardized format, plus whatever comments users have added. In addition, they have something near and dear to my heart:
Downloadable documentation.
This means that if I’m developing on an airplane at 30,000 feet, [...]
Monthly Archives: April 2009
Why Downloadable Documentation Is Critical
Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009 – 10:16 pm
Making a Field Required Doesn’t Make It Truthful
Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009 – 9:35 am
Today’s lesson for people who make fields “required” on their web forms:
You can make it “required”, but you can’t force people to tell you the truth.
I recently filled out a form for a service that will eventually ship a book to me. I understand why they needed my street address, my credit card information, and [...]
Back to My Usual Server
Saturday, April 18th, 2009 – 8:05 pm
After a couple of months of temporary hosting with A2 Hosting, I finally have my real server back online, at a colo space in San José. Not that I have any complaints against A2 (heck, I even just gave them a little more Google-juice); they were perfectly servicable. But I’ve really gotten used to having [...]