Method Overloading in PHP5
Although with release of PHP5 we finaly got some long awaited OOP features, sometimes I really miss overloading capability which exists in languages like Java. I am talking about something like this:...
View ArticlePHP: Callback functions and OOP
Recently, I had to change default behavior of storing session data into files and use MySQL DB instead. In practice, that means writing whole bunch of callback functions and setting callbacks with...
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Future of Web Applications, Miami
Tuesday, cloudy day in Miami, not really good weather for the beach, but who cares. Today is FOWA day! Check in was within 08-09AM in beautiful Adrienne Arsht arena. Checked location on Google maps,...
View ArticleMySQL – NULL values and sorting
Very often we need to sort some data by specific field in db table but in a way that NULL values goes at the end of dataset. Typical example is frontend which displays data from specific table, with...
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HTC Hero USB Tether on Mac OS X
Recently I got brand new HTC Hero – great android based phone. Since my previous phone (Nokia N73) has been working with Mac without any problem I was very disappointed to figure out that I have to...
View ArticleMySQL: Moving table from one db to another
To move one table from one db to another, you can create new table (create table foo_new like foo) in db where you want to move table and then copy data with insert into/select query. However there is...
View ArticleMySQL: Deleting with Left Join
Today I had to deal with one huge table and cleanup all data where foreign key doesn’t have it’s primary key match in original table, just to remind myself how sub-queries in MySQL are terrible slower...
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Validating an integer with PHP
When I started writing this post I wasn’t sure should I put this into programming category or fun … I mean, validating if passed variable is integer aka whole number, how hard can it be? It appears not...
View ArticleCurl HTTP Client 2.0
It’s been a while since I last updated my Curl HTTP Client class. That’s the class that we’ve been using for years now, for all kinds of site scrapping, bulk domain registration without API, … and even...
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Hello World, Hello 2022!
I have to say, for someone being a blogger since 2005, it feels tremendously awkward to write a Hello World post in 2022. Truth to be told, it’s been a while, literally years since I last posted...
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