http://blog.breuls.org Discoveries of a Dutch Developer Fri, 08 Aug 2008 08:49:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en When I started out PHP'ing, I bought a little PHP book called 'PHP pocket reference'. It was one of those small O'Reilly books and it was written by Rasmus Lerdorf himself. I still have it, although of course I don't use it anymore. The book focused on PHP3, although PHP4 was ... http://blog.breuls.org/2008/08/08/farewell-to-php4/ » Neat tricks for the MySQL command-line pager » Why do browsers still not have file upload progress meters? » How Facebook serves pictures » Migrating OOP Libraries and Frameworks to PHP 5.3 » Desktop Image Uploaders Using Adobe AIR and JavaScript http://blog.breuls.org/2008/07/09/links-for-this-week-2/ It's always fun to compare tools. Who works with what and especially, why? Following the example of Flickr and some others, let me list my tools, see if you match: Working: Main machine: MacBook Pro. I have an Ubuntu PC, but that's just 'extra'. I do everything on my Mac, from working ... http://blog.breuls.org/2008/07/02/tools-of-the-trade/ The Next Web: "I feel sorry for you to type in mail.google.com as it’s six characters longer. That seems like a minor effort, but let’s assume you check your email ten times a day. Then, all of a sudden, it’s 60 characters extra. Now consider the number of Germans using ... http://blog.breuls.org/2008/06/27/geeeeee-mail-there-six-characters-extra/ I like conferences. They bring a combination of information, context, some discussion and all kinds of impressions to you in audible form. In a form that doesn't require you to browse through blogs or magazine articles. Also, you can reflect on the subjects with others during the break times. Or ... http://blog.breuls.org/2008/06/18/a-day-at-the-rai-dutch-php-conference-2008/ » MacGDBp - a PHP debugger using XDebug » Dutch PHP Conference 2008 - The Video - I was interviewed. Did I make the cut? » DPC'08 review by Rick Buitenman » It's About Time You Learned Javascript (for real) - I think I'm gonna read that book » The Top Ten Subversion ... http://blog.breuls.org/2008/06/17/links-for-this-week/ » Download FireFox 3 and install it on my Mac (my Ubuntu machine switched to FF3 weeks ago) » Download this possibly very interesting PHP Debug thingy for the Mac http://blog.breuls.org/2008/06/16/todos-for-june-17/ I've got lots of content in my RSS aggregator that I "want to read, but not right now". And I keep skipping over it, making sure I don't accidentally mark those items as read, and that is starting to annoy me. So I'll just do what every sensible guy does: ... http://blog.breuls.org/2008/06/13/stuff-i-need-to-read/ Lore Sjöberg: "here's what I often do: I put my laptop back into my satchel, put my iPod back into my coat and bring my entire life with me into the bathroom" Lore ponders what to do if you're working in a cafe and have to use the bathroom. I think ... http://blog.breuls.org/2008/05/15/life-in-a-cafe/ Eric Bergen: Have you ever executed a query from the MySQL command line client only to find that the output wrapped and the result is unreadable? I have. A lot. In the past you have to run the query again with \G instead of ; or \g to get it to ... http://blog.breuls.org/2008/04/21/auto-vertical-output/