Author Archives: fmntf

<canvas> rocks, <video> sucks

Posted on September 19, 2012 by fmntf

When in news.yc I find posts like “iPhone 5 website teardown: How Apple compresses video using JPEG, JSON, and <canvas>” I really fall in love. Seriously. So much in love that I need to try it by myself. Hence, VideoCanvas. … Continue reading →

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Experimenting PHPADD on Doctrine2

Posted on March 6, 2012 by fmntf

Today I tried to unleash PHPADD over Doctrine2 sources. Of course, it couldn’t even start: it didn’t support namespaces. So I had to improve the analysis of tokenized PHP source and now it works. By the way, the report was not satisfying as … Continue reading →

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5.3.7 is the best PHP release ever

Posted on September 4, 2011 by fmntf

Before release 5.3.7, PHP was fantastic. It had everything the web needed, built-in. But starting from 5.3.7 something in the interpreter changed: – a stupid regression on crypt() – the knowledge it has only 70% of code covered by tests … Continue reading →

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PHPADD 1.3.0

Posted on March 21, 2011 by fmntf

I just uploaded to the PEAR repository the latest version of PHPADD, which is labeled 1.3.0. From this release I can consider it useful, since it includes the ability of exclude whatever you do not want to scan. In fact, … Continue reading →

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PHPADD: abandoned docblocks detector

Posted on December 6, 2010 by fmntf

Docblocks may become as evil as comments when they’re not treated as first-class citizens (see: Meaningless docblocks). PHPADD can analyze a directory with PHP source code and detect (for each file, for each class, for each method) if the parameters in … Continue reading →

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BannedComboItems: ComboBox with disabled items

Posted on November 28, 2010 by fmntf

Combos are beasts. Beasts for developers (400 lines of ugly configuration) and beasts for customers. For some business logic, you may not select some elements. What to do in these cases? If you do not put unselectable items in the … Continue reading →

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Git tips and tricks

Posted on November 24, 2010 by fmntf

Display the active branch in the terminal prompt Add this line to ~/.bashrc PS1=’\u@\h:\w$(__git_ps1 ” (%s)”)\$ ‘ Automatic add during commit git commit -am “message” It automatically adds already versioned files to the index before commit. This will automatically remove … Continue reading →

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Ext.Ajax on steroids [AuthorizedAjax]

Posted on November 10, 2010 by fmntf

In the company I work for we use ExtTop, the Windows-like desktop environment which provides icons, taskbar and start menu. It is a single page web application. You can open all the windows you want, but you will never reload … Continue reading →

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Once upon a time…

Posted on November 1, 2010 by fmntf

This post is all about testing. If you are already testing your code, you can skip it. Imagine PHP without the in_array() function: you need it, so you have to write it: function inArray($needle, array $haystack) { foreach (…) { … … Continue reading →

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ExtDiamond 1.1

Posted on October 25, 2010 by fmntf

This is a minor release, with a little but important functionality. Download it on GitHub! What changed ExtDiamond is shipped with some built-in widgets. Right now we have only GridPanel and Form.Field, but we hope to have something more in … Continue reading →

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