Programming
Microsoft as OpenId provider, but when as a consumer?
Microsoft announced the public availability of a preview of the Windows Live ID OpenID Provider.
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Ramsay Millar on trends in software process improvement
An interesting read is this DDJ article by Ramsay Millar in which he describes these trends he sees happening in software process improvement:
A shift towards more collaborative, role-based teamwork and away from the “lone wolf” IT culture of code-and-fix.
A wish to close the gap between business requirements and software delivery by applying an agile process […]
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Stack Overflow
Forgot to mention this, but recently the new programmers community Stack Overflow came out of beta and now is available to everyone.
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Creating upgradable bookmarklets
I haven’t seen this technique before, but the implementation of Reading Blinds bookmarklet, a tool to focus your eyes on reading a page, really eases maintenance of a published bookmarklet.
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Microsoft renames IE-specific CSS properties
With the intent to reach full CSS 2.1 compliance with Internet Explorer 8, Microsoft has announced their decision to place all CSS properties that fulfill one of the following conditions behind the ‘-ms-’ prefix:
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Don’t forget __isset() with overloaded setters and getters
This post is mostly a marker for me to find the solution for this problem in the future. What problem? Well, a call using empty() to test a class field always returned true even if the field wasn’t empty.
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PHP tip: omit ?> from PHP only files
Great tip from the Zend programmer’s Reference Guide: For files that contain only PHP code, the closing tag (”?>”) is never permitted.
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MySQL STRICT_TRANS_TABLES mode and truncated text values
I just upgraded Apache, PHP and MySQL to their current versions on my development system. After that a unit test of one of my PHP classes failed on inserting a row in a MySQL table. The test inserts text with a greater length than the maximum column length of a VARCHAR column.
This test fails […]
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COBOL example
In my comment on the post Logical flow of an Interactive program the structure of the COBOL source code got lost, here is how it’s supposed to look:
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Archives for a category WordPress plugin
For the new version of this website I wanted to show a list of monthly archives, limited to posts of a specific category. The software used to run this website is WordPress but the wp_get_archives() function, to get a list of archives, does not have the ability to filter on category. So I created the ‘Archives for a category’ plugin that enhances this function to show archive links for a specific category.
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