Archive for the ‘PHP’ Category

Leaky pipes

Well, a tumultuous relationship with Yahoo Pipes has ended after a long struggle with various bugs, inefficiencies, annoyances and finally service refusal. There’s no doubt Pipes is a very useful and clever system, but it has some very serious downsides:

Caching – every pipe is rigorously cached, and updates are so infrequent as to allow bugs [...]

Ooh, pretty

Just thought I’d share a little trick I’ve just discovered while anally going through a couple of my projects making all the HTML properly indented… it seems I spend a lot of my time trying to find ways to make my life in some way easier, and this is one of the ones which worked!

ob_start();

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