Archive for January, 2004

What I don’t like about PHP

Friday, January 30th, 2004

Variable scope or lack of. Which I guess really isn’t possible unless you force variables to be declared before they’re used (like Perl’s “my”). Typos in variables are killer.
Namespaces or lack of. I don’t need a billion functions polluting the only namespace I have either.
Everything is pass by value?
Inconsistent naming of the billion functions. html_entity_decode() […]

BookCheck 1.01

Saturday, January 10th, 2004

I’ve made a new version of BookCheck. Just a minor touch up. Everything is pretty much the same but I fixed a bug in the validation of the ISBNs. Previously it was validating ISBNs ending in zero incorrectly (it treated them all as invalid). This probably affected about 1 in 11 numbers. Should be good […]

Happy New Years!

Friday, January 2nd, 2004

In celebration of the New Year’s, I’ve got a special treat for both of you readers out there.
A preview of CrystalBall. It is named CrystallBall because it allows the user to see images that are passing through the ether. Yeah, corny as all hell. That’s why they don’t usually let us programmers name the programs.
OK, […]