Monthly Archives: March 2009

How to know that your PHP is borked before your clients kill you

By Richard Bradshaw | Published: March 24, 2009
Maybe it’s just me, but every now and then I make a quick change to a PHP script, don’t bother checking it, then a few hours/days/months later either realise that I missed a vital semicolon, or mismatched a bracket. This started to get on my nerves, as now this has happened a couple of times [...]
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How to use Twitter as an error log

By Richard Bradshaw | Published: March 17, 2009
Sure this has been done before, but I had a brainwave today – why not use Twitter as an error log for web apps? I already have error handling on my functions, so surely this shouldn’t be a difficult addition… turns out it’s not. First, you’ll need a twitter account. I’d recommend setting one up, then protecting [...]
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Using Texter to speed up web design/development

By Richard Bradshaw | Published: March 5, 2009
Lifehacker’s Texter let’s you define short macros that allow you type a little, and get a lot back. I’ve not used this before, but am constantly finding myself typing the same bits over and over and over, so this is a very neat and helpful little tool. Basically, you just define a command, then specify what [...]
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