November 2006
10 posts
2 tags
RIP: Google Answers
Adieu to Google Answers says the Google Blog. Google is a company fueled by innovation, which to us means trying lots of new things all the time—and sometimes it means reconsidering our goals for a product. Later this week, we will stop accepting new questions in Google Answers I wish more companies would have the balls to kill (or sell!) off projects that are no longer performing or...
Nov 29th
for the love of god, please – I don’t want to talk about PHP frameworks any more.
Nov 18th
4 tags
new YUI release
Version 0.12 of the YUI Library is out. The biggest thing for me is the addition of larger (950px) width layouts, as well as full-viewport (liquid) layouts: http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/grids/
Nov 18th
Nov 18th
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PHP Performance Tweaks
I can happily say I’ve been following these (and more) tips ever since I joined Yahoo!: If a method can be static, declare it static. Speed improvement is by a factor of 4. Avoid magic like __get, __set, __autoload require_once() is expensive Use full paths in includes and requires, less time spent on resolving the OS paths. If you need to find out the time when the script started...
Nov 7th
Lea-Anne is at Yahoo! Time Capsule Camp today!
Nov 7th
Sugar Arrays: Porting over JavaScript 1.6 Array... →
Nov 4th
2 tags
catch fatal errors in PHP
PHP has a quirk: if you’re within an output buffer block (ob_{start,end,etc}) and a fatal error occurs, the current buffer is flushed (printed), the error is handled, and then your script dies. What if I don’t want my current buffer printed? Glad you asked. There’s another PHP quirk: you can’t intercept E_ERROR (fatal errors) with a user-defined error handler. If you could, then you’d...
Nov 3rd
1 tag
my NaNoWriMo plot
hoodwink’dan original screenplay conceptby Bob Comedy: A struggling artist teams up with an alcoholic ex-CIA agent to commit the perfect crime. In the process they fall in love with Parker Posey. By the end of the movie they blow up 5 double agents and end up winning the admiration of their country, living happily ever after.Think Encino Man meets Die Hard. courtesy of Plot-o-matic™
Nov 2nd
“If you haven’t noticed yet, we’ve added the ability to sign up and log into...”
– menuism
Nov 2nd