Using spatial data in Doctrine 2

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In this post I’ll introduce you to extending Doctrine 2 to provide ways to use custom data types and DQL functions. We needed a simple way to store locations and calculate distances between points on maps and some other stuff for Wantlet. Since we are using MySQL, we decided to use MySQL’s Spatial Extensions for it since they seemed suitable. …

What was the point of XHTML?

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XHTML was the fad for a while – you were a bad coder if your markup wasn’t valid XHTML. Now it’s fading out. Giorgio Sironi’s recent look at what happened to XHTML got me thinking: What was the point of all this? Why was XHTML useful, or was it?