Category Archives: Insight
Differentiating between function currying and partial function application
With the recent rise of functional programming (in recent years) a lot of concepts have made their way into mainstream programming languages. Higher order functions, closures, partial function applications, currying; just to name a few. But from all these concepts, … Continue reading
FTP, PHP and leaky abstractions
To be honest until recently I never gave much taught on FTPs way of working. Sure I’ve used it for a long time, and tried to minimize it’s use for an even longer period; but sometimes you just get things … Continue reading
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A Subversion horror story
Every once in a while the stars align for one, and only one single purpose; to drive developers in the twilight zone of bug madness. Unlike many other occurrences, this time the problem wasn’t code related, it all happened at … Continue reading
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The state of PHP frameworks
CodeIgniter If I remember well, it was about two years ago that I first laid hands on CodeIgniter. It was my first web framework and came in touch with it after seeing it listed as development tool of one web … Continue reading
Port forwarding with PuTTY
A couple of days ago, while being at home, I had to access a couple of services for testing, that are under normal circumstances only accessible from the companies intranet. While there is a VPN which I can access, my … Continue reading
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