Be careful of whitespace in .php files
So I was debugging some anomalous behavior on my website and as I was poking around, I half-consciously noticed the change bars in in my editor that showed two extra…
Getting started with PHP: Essential dev tools
A complaint that I have with pretty much every programming language manual I’ve ever read, is that they almost never start by telling you how to get the tools you…
Windows and PHP are snowballs. Respect them.
A young developer newly embedded in the enthusiast programmer community could be forgiven for believing certain truths to be self-evident: that most people use Apple computers. That most websites are…
Back in business
An update on the site intrusion which took out this blog for several days, and the steps I’ve taken to repair the damage and prevent future attacks.