PHP5 Benchmarks: for vs while, count vs sizeof, md5 vs sha1 and other speed comparisons like these for those who really need an extra millisecond of optimisation. I like this.
My buddy Tim Yang's website is back online. So is Problogger Clean, a WordPress theme we've worked together on.
Plugin Debugging : Hooks and Filters Flow
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 be a priority issue :…
PHP Bitwise Operators Example of Use
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 of cake to use while…
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.
Speeding Things with PHP Output Buffer
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 you and you can skip…
Instant Messaging Clients : Mini Review
Me and the terrible world of Instant Messaging.
Remember the fun game The Incredible Machine where you had to build, errr, incredible machines ? Now here is the video. Awesome stuff !
Adsense Earnings To RSS, version 1.1
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 !
WordPress Functions Reference
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 way of searching WordPress functions…