I've been quite busy lately but I've obviously been exposed to all the fud about the PHP internals decission of choosing the back-slash as the namespace separator.
So to keep everyone happy I've spent a few minutes working on a solution to the problem and here it goes:Read more
I've been using Texy! lately to write in my Drupal powered blog, it's a great Markdown/Textile replacement and it even has a syntax highlighting addon which helps a lot to publish source code in the posts.
I've found however a problem. I usually keep my source files in my subversion repository and sometimes I want to show the syntax highlighted code of one of those files in the post. I was getting tired to copy-pasting the contents so I've implemented a dead simple Drupal input filter which dynamically includes a local or remote file as simple text in the content.Read more
Managing a cache is a complex task, at first you start placing random stuff on it, when you need to squeeze a few more hits per second you keep adding stuff to the cache. At the end of the day, if you've not planned it carefully, you might end up with a nightmare of stale data in your pages or even a completely broken site.
One easy way to apply some logic to the cached data and help in the invalidation of cached stuff is the use of tags. Cache tags are a simple way to group cached items so it gets easy to remove/invalidate them if needed.Read more
I was looking for a way to efficiently pass data between cross-domain iframes using the location hash trick. The first thing that I checked was JSON but the payload gets huge when url encoded, then I tried with base64 encoding which helps but not very much. Finally I found RISON which in short is nothing more than a reformulation of JSON's control characters to make them more URI friendly.Read more