Archive for June, 2008

University versus self-taught

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008

A topic I've been thinking about for quite some time now. If I was an employer, looking for an employee, which would I take: The type that basically self-taught himself programming through reading books and/or websites, or the type that spend an X amount of years at university and has ...

Applied design patterns: Database abstraction (part 2)

Monday, June 9th, 2008

In some of my previous posts, I've pretty much ranted about the poor design qualities of some people that enjoy calling themselves PHP programmers. In these two posts however, I'd like to show you what good and proper design is. The topic is the same as that in my previous ...

Applied design patterns: Database abstraction (part 1)

Monday, June 9th, 2008

In some of my previous posts, I've pretty much ranted about the poor design qualities of some people that enjoy calling themselves PHP programmers. In these two posts however, I'd like to show you what good and proper design is. The topic is the same as that in my previous ...

Object-oriented programming in ANSI-C

Sunday, June 1st, 2008

This PDF is actually pretty neat. It explains how you can apply a basic sense of object-oriented programming in standard (non-OO) C. I'm no C programmer (I've programmed a microprocessor for school a year or so back), but it's still pretty interesting to see. Check it out at http://www.planetpdf.com/codecuts/pdfs/ooc.pdf Found it ...

Apparent user-content filtering in PHP

Sunday, June 1st, 2008

The following fellow is a tard. http://www.soaptray.com/2008/04/filtering-user-input-in-php/ How I start to loathe StumbleUpon and, worse, the people that promote their own blogpost thinking they've actually produced something awesome. I'm not going to go into it anymore, instead I'll copypasta the comment I posted on there: I have some critical comments @ your code. ...