Code in the hole - Comments

Carl Helmertz: Phing trick for avoiding deploying debug code

nospam@example.com (Carl Helmertz) — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 21:57:33 +0000

If this isn't a CodeSniffer smell, it should be!

Vinh Nguyen: Return false with prudence

nospam@example.com (Vinh Nguyen) — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 12:37:54 +0000

Great post about return value! In fact, just return FALSE for something went wrong is poor! We can't know what happen! We just know it's not success! That's all! Exception is the best!

Serg Gr: Monitoring MySQL with Ganglia and gmetric

nospam@example.com (Serg Gr) — Fri, 07 May 2010 19:48:36 +0000

it's simply to use - mysqladmin -i1 -i1 - interval in 1 sec

Vlatko Šurlan: Monitoring MySQL with Ganglia and gmetric

nospam@example.com (Vlatko Šurlan) — Thu, 06 May 2010 19:33:30 +0000

For really trivial monitoring you can also use: watch -n 1 mysqladmin -uroot -prootpass processlist Taken from: http://www.docplanet.org/mysql/mysql-sleeping-processees-how-to-control-them/

Mario Aquino: Inspecting Javascript objects

nospam@example.com (Mario Aquino) — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 06:05:04 +0000

This was very helpful. Thank you!

David: Phing task to update Twitter status

nospam@example.com (David) — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 23:10:16 +0000

Also of note is that the %I in the timestamp example is something, but it isn't minutes as I assumed it would be. Minutes would be %M. Big props for this task BTW ;-)

David: Phing task to update Twitter status

nospam@example.com (David) — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 17:07:36 +0000

For Ubuntu server, create the "my" folder under the $_PHING_DIR/tasks folder. Don't put the "my" folder under $_PHING_DIR/tasks/ext.

Elijen: Creating (very) large XML files with PHP

nospam@example.com (Elijen) — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:09:40 +0000

Or you can lock the file on the start of the script and unlock it again after all output is done.

Rahul: Javascript cookie objects using Prototype and JSON

nospam@example.com (Rahul) — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 13:36:23 +0000

Hi, If I want to give a name to my cookie, how I will do this?

Jim Clark: Return false with prudence

nospam@example.com (Jim Clark) — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 09:24:44 +0000

Great post. In my opinion the same arguments apply for returning "null". In these cases the API may return a different type; forcing a user to implement explicit checks irrespective of the usage scenario. That's why I agree that null object pattern and empty iterables are preferable. One issue I come up against often, when using the empty iterable method, is how to handle an empty list where this needs to be handled specifically. [geshi lang=java] Lisk Books = findByAuthor(author); if (Books.isEmpty()){ display("Book not found"); } for(Book book: Books){ display(book); } [/lang] But what I really want is something like: [geshi lang=java] for(Book book: findByAuthor(author)){ display(book); } else { display("Book not found"); } [/lang] Do you know of any language constructs that handle this case nicely?

andy york: The most important command-line tip - incremental history searching with .inputrc

nospam@example.com (andy york) — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 23:25:25 +0000

...makes me feel like I'm cheating. Way cool! Have been a commandlinefu fan for a while now. Got you bookmarked as an ubergeek. UDAMAN!

Chris: Javascript refactoring for customising shared libraries

nospam@example.com (Chris) — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 13:18:56 +0000

Some great advices. I had several problems with duplicate code in the past.

David Winterbottom: High Performance Web Sites by Steve Souders

nospam@example.com (David Winterbottom) — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:24:47 +0000

Cheers for that - typo now corrected.

Sven: High Performance Web Sites by Steve Souders

nospam@example.com (Sven) — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:23:35 +0000

image/css does not work. You must use text/css

seant: Inspecting Javascript objects

nospam@example.com (seant) — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 23:24:22 +0000

Thanks for this.