Tag Archives: Code Smell

Resign Patterns – Ailments of Unsuitable Project-Disoriented Software; by Michael Duell

Posted on 27 Feb 2012 by hakre | Leave a comment

PHP: Curly Brackets Substring Access

Posted on 15 Jun 2010 by hakre

I just have another lighter PHP specific Code Smell: Curly Brackets Substring Access. If you’re coding PHP since a longer time you might not only know but also have used curly brackets for index-/char-based substring access.

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CSS Selector Code Smell

Posted on 19 Feb 2010 by hakre

3-2-1: Grab your QC environment and get ready for CSS today because it just does not makes sense to write a CSS Selector like these: Example 1: A bogus selector. Example 2: Can make sense The first example is pretty … Continue reading →

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WPDB include problems in wordpress 3.0

Posted on 30 Jan 2010 by hakre

From time to time my brain remembers me that there is a major bug within wordpress in case of the re-instantiation of the wordpress database class. When a replacement class is in use, the original WPDB one will get re-created … Continue reading →

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Relative URL (#2) HTML/ XHTML Code Smell

Posted on 24 Jan 2010 by hakre

Just yesterday I had a post about the dot in the beginning of relative URLs. Today I have a small addition to that: Two dot path segments in an URL/URI. It’s some more detailed thing related to the history and … Continue reading →

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Relative URL HTML/ XHTML Code Smell

Posted on 23 Jan 2010 by hakre

Another one for the HTML/ XHTML Code Smells: If you’re using realtive URLs inside your documents (which is pretty valid and can save you some bandwidth as well as it can save some hassles for mirroring a website) you should … Continue reading →

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Script and Style HTML/ XHTML Code Smells

Posted on 19 Jan 2010 by hakre

Remember the time? Grabbing the copy of the HTML 2 RFC, reading through within the afternoon and you started to understand where this all might lead to after some time.  Seeing 3.2, 4.1 and XHTML 1.0 passing this finally ended up … Continue reading →

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