Monthly Archives: December 2011

How to avoid “tight coupling” in a WordPress Plugin?

Posted on 31 Dec 2011 by

This was asked today over at Stackoverflow (WordPress Plugin: How do I avoid “tight coupling”?) and I was able to grasp some time for an answer, I thought it’s worth linking it for the interested reader. Sure it can’t answer … Continue reading →

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Where Have All the Singletons Gone? by Misko Hevery

Posted on 31 Dec 2011 by | Leave a comment

The Clean Code Talks — Inheritance, Polymorphism, & Testing (Speaker: Misko Hevery)

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Will Automattic join Dec 29 move away from GoDaddy day?

Posted on 23 Dec 2011 by

With all the reports about SOPA and GoDaddy (Mashable, PC World, ars technica, Read Write Web, VentureBeat, …) I was wondering if Automattic, one of GoDaddy’s customers, has been taking note of selfprodigy’s reddit posting: I’m suggesting Dec 29th as … Continue reading →

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PHP UTF-8 String Length

Posted on 13 Dec 2011 by

If you’ve got an UTF-8 encoded PHP string (e.g. when working with DOMDocument) and you don’t want to rely on the mbstring extension to get it’s length, this can be solved with a simple regular expression (as the string does … Continue reading →

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If you’re a developer and you’re about to ask another developer a technical question (on a forum, via email, on a chat channel, or in person), you’d better be ready to answer the question “What have you tried?”

Posted on 8 Dec 2011 by | Leave a comment