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Mock PHP 5 exam
Saturday, July 25th, 2009I have been considering going for the Zend PHP 5 certification and bought myself some Zend PHP 5 Practice Exams to see what I need to study up on.
Here is one of the questions I came across.
Which of the following functions are part of PHP’s internal Iterator interface?
Answers: (choose 5)
rewind()
[...]
How do I unit test this?
Friday, February 20th, 2009Came across a tricky bug a few weeks ago whilst working on some extremely fragile code.
This was the code:
settings.php
$mail_settings = array(
’server’ => ‘mail.example.com’,
‘port’ => 25
);
index.php
function send_email($recipient, $message)
{
include_once(’settings.php’);
$foo = new MailSender($mail_settings);
$foo->send($message, $recipient); //this was line number [...]
Tomb Raider: Underworld First Impressions
Saturday, November 22nd, 2008Yesterday I bought myself the latest instalment of the Tomb Raider series for the Wii.
I spent a while playing it then I came across got stuck in the Level Puppet No Longer in the last room with the ceiling ring where I couldn’t progress in the game because the switch to open the door had [...]
A double standard for adult content
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008This is my opinion on the topic of a bill outlawing the possession of “extreme pornography” which is set to become law next week. Here’s the BBC article
Why does porn get a different set of standards? It’s perfectly legal to show non-pornographic films which contain “an act which threatens or appears to threaten a person’s [...]
New PC
Sunday, February 10th, 2008This week I decided to splash out a bit on a new PC for my parents. Their previous PC was a painfully slow decrepit Windows ‘98 install which took about ten minutes to boot and often the mouse would freeze up (meaning that I would have to save whatever document they were editing using keyboard [...]
Guitar Hero III Expert Mode
Sunday, January 6th, 2008I’ve found the secret to defeating songs in Guitar Hero III on expert mode… and it is more entertaining than watching someone else play i.e. if you’ve only got one guitar controller.
You need three people, one for the strumming and whammy bar, one for the top three buttons (green, red, yellow) and one for the [...]
He wasn’t my type
Saturday, January 5th, 2008Guitar Hero III: May cause numb fingers
Tuesday, December 25th, 2007Don’t try to IRC directly after playing “Through the Fire and the Flames” by DragonForce on Guitar Hero III
The result comes out much like this:
“I ahve been mostly playing Wii gmaes agianst my family
and i ahve been playing guitra hero
whcich has maed my fingres num”
An MP3 of the track is downloadable from the Official DragonForce [...]
Panoramic Pics
Sunday, September 2nd, 2007Panoramic Pics
Website Redesign
Wednesday, April 18th, 2007Welcome to the new shiny website, I had a craving for rounded corners and gradient fills.
It was a nightmare to get it working in Internet Explorer.