Fixing "Error 320 (net::ERR_INVALID_RESPONSE)...

Without starting a browser flamewar, I'll just say that Google Chrome is a nice idea, but I won't be switching any time soon. As software evolves, competitors always appear, distilling out the good parts of existing products to create their take on something, and make it better. Google has done that with Chrome; it's light and fast and responsive. Unfortunately, it's still a bit green on the...

Defend PHP

I ran across a great discussion at StackOverflow today that started with this question: I made a tongue-in-cheek comment in another question thread calling PHP a terrible language and it got down-voted like crazy. Apparently there are lots of people here who love PHP. So I'm genuinely curious. What am I missing? Why makes PHP a good language? The article lists a dozen or so "flaws" with the language, and then...

ASP.Net Load Testing and Optimization Toolkit R...

One of my passions is optimization. There's no code related task I like more than making something run better, faster, snappier -- from tweaking UI registry keys to stripping out crap code -- I want results.  Usually if something is noticeably slow on the user's end, there's something fundamentally wrong that can be made faster -- a lot faster. Why do I love optimization? It's because it's the...

PHP Variable Test reference

I thought I'd post a link to this PHP Variable Tests reference page. It's a great reference that's kept up to date with the current version of PHP. I use it sometimes when I'm waffling over what function to use to validate a variable. Something I've noticed lately with the newer versions of PHP is that ctype_digit no longer returns true when you give it an empty string (ie. ctype_digit('')). This...