Impressions on WordPress

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So I’ve been using WordPress as my blogging platform for a while now. As a matter of fact, this is my 48th post with WP. I had only heard good things about WordPress before installing it, but how has it worked out?

A look at pooQuery internals

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I have received some questions regarding pooQuery (pQ from now on)… Does this really work? How does it do all this? Short answer: Yes, it does work, and what makes it tick is magic… or not, so let’s look at the tricks behind fluent languages.

pooQuery – The Fluent PHP Revolution!

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We all know that fluent programming style rocks, and jQuery is a great example of that! Wel also know that SQL is greatly simplified with fluent style interfaces! And so are Regular Expressions! Now it’s time for PHP to step in the world of fluency with pooQuery!

The art of finding information

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For a programmer, finding information is important. Not just finding information about code, such as while debugging, but finding information in general. Suppose you need to write a client which talks to a server with sockets, but you don’t know how sockets work in your programming language of choice. This is something quite typical, and even if you’ve been programming …

A programming track record

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Anyone who has been programming for a while probably has written tons of code. For example, I began working with PHP somewhere in 2001-2002 I think. That’s 6 years ago. As you can guess, I have written a lot of PHP code. I also happen to have some of my early works saved. What does our old code tell us?

Scripting in Windows

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Many people probably know Linux and its various easy to use scripting languages, like Python, Perl and Bash Script. They are available on most systems, and it’s very easy to write little command-line scripts with them to ease various tasks. Often you could use a small scripting language like the above on Windows, and sure, it is possible to install …

Ext JS impressions

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I’ve lately been using Ext JS in a project. Ext is basically a big JavaScript UI framework – like their site says, “a foundation you can build on”. It comes with various interface widgets like Windows, tabbed panels, accordion panels, menus, toolbars and forms to name some. It also has various other things such as nice Ajax tools. But what …