HTML5 input type compatibility comparison by @ppk – pretty sad really.

Holy JavaScript loader comparison batman!

Since learning about the existence of source control systems about 8 years ago, I’ve always chosen Subversion for projects: it’s free, better than CVS, widely used and documented, and doesn’t completely suck. I’ve used other systems at times, as required by particular projects – notably SourceSafe (which is worse than Subversion) and Perforce (which is better, but costly) – but none of them were quite sufficient to pull me away from Subversion as a simple, obvious choice for all of my own projects.

D3 allows you to bind arbitrary data to a Document Object Model (DOM), and then apply data-driven transformations to the document. As a trivial example, you can use D3 to generate a basic HTML table from an array of numbers. Or, use the same data to create an interactive SVG bar chart with smooth transitions and interaction.

Sehr cooles Dashboard das die neuen Features von Firefox4 und HTML vorstellt.

The plan was to find out how much profanity I could find in commit messages, and then show the stats by language. These are my findings:

Out of 929857 commit messages, I found 210 swear words (

Warum PHP besser ist als Ruby. Sehr amüsanter vergleich

Ein 6,2kb großer Regex um E-Mails nach RFC822 zu parsen. Sehr amüsant.

Netter (Feature-)Vergleich von IE9 und Firefox4 (mit canvas dargestellt)

Nette Webseite um die selbst erstellten mod_rewrite rules zu testen ob man vielleicht etwas vergessen hat.

However, despite it's apparent usefulness and wide adoption, the Singleton is also controversial. Many developers see it as an AntiPattern nowadays and I tend to agree with them.

Unfortunately, the more I got to work with phpDocumentor the more issues surfaced with its performance, ease of use and above all: memory usage.

Given some of the new statistical features included in newer versions (5.3.2+), I put together a plugin suite for Munin.

SplPriorityQueue is a fantastic new feature of PHP 5.3. However, in trying to utilize it in a few projects recently, I've run into some behavior that's (a) non-intuitive, and (b) in some cases at least, undesired. In this post, I'll present my solutions.

Hehe, manche sind sehr sehr wahr

Psst, you want some client-side MySQL load balancing with and without sharding for your PHP application? PHP 5.3 has something to offer for you.