Basically, a plugin for WordPress creates a PHP function (called a filter or an action) which is triggered when a particular event (called a hook) occurs. When several filters are supposed to be triggered by the same hook, you can define their priority. When you're writing a plugin and you're facing unexpected behavior, it may […][...] → Read more

In my neverending amateur journey through the wonders of coding, here is something I've learnt in PHP today : how to conveniently store a set of flags into one value, with bitmask comparisons made easy thanks to PHP bitwise operators. Sounds greek to you ? Read on, it's this kind of things that are piece […][...] → Read more

PAPA9: I soooooo wish I could be there. Pinball has to be the thing that gave me the greatest excitement moments in my life :) I'll trade my wife for a Robowar.[...] → Read more

While playing a bit with Xdebug (a profiling tool for PHP), I've come across something I didn't know and that I frankly found a bit odd : how to use output buffering (PHP function ob_start()) to speed up some stuff. In a few words, just so you know if this is obvious noob stuff for […][...] → Read more

Me and the terrible world of Instant Messaging.[...] → Read more

Remember the fun game The Incredible Machine where you had to build, errr, incredible machines ? Now here is the video. Awesome stuff ![...] → Read more

It was quicker than expected, because a kind reader was too impatient for an update so he fixed the script himself :) Thanks to Chris Gibson, my Adsense Earnings RSS Feed is now version 1.1, which is compatible with the recent changes Google made with the query parameters. Thanks a lot Chris ![...] → Read more

I knew about the excellent WordPress Xref (read: cross-ref) maintained by Owen Winkler. This is a cross reference of all functions, variables and constants used and defined in WordPress, which provides worthy help when coding things in or for WordPress. I just found about Functions, another project from the same man, which adds a handier […][...] → Read more

Two days ago, there was a nice surprise waiting for me in my inbox : a notice from Paypal telling me that someone had tipped a few bucks in, using my Paypal "Sponsor me I'm doing cool plugins" button (which appears only on plugin pages, if you want to try it:) It's been the first […][...] → Read more

My Adsense Earnings to RSS script has stopped functionning a couple of days ago, since Google modified the pages my script parses to generate an RSS feed. Stay tuned : I'll update my script later on within the next few days when I have a moment. Sorry for the inconvenience peeps ![...] → Read more