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Top 2009 Facebook Status Trends
Posted by Howard Yeend in web on December 22, 2009
As google release their annual zeitgeist, and many other sites prepare interesting stats on web usage, facebook have today done the same and released an fascinating insight into the top facebook status update topics of 2009:
PHP 5.3.0 Released!
Posted by Howard Yeend in PHP on July 1, 2009
If you’re still stuck in the old PHP 4 days, please please please take today’s release of PHP 5.3.0 as your cue to start learning about the wonderful world of object oriented PHP 5.
5.3.0 isn’t a hugely interesting release, but getting your PHP4 code compatible with 5 will ease the process when PHP 6 comes along. PHP6 is really where it’s at:
What’s out:
No more register_globals (finally)
No more magic_quotes (you kinda liked magic quotes? Admittedly it was handy, but when you think about it, having code that may or may not be sanitised depending on a php.ini setting is a Bad Idea™)
No more HTTP_GET_VARS and cousins. Just change to $_GET etc and you’re fine.
What’s in:
A bunch of minor fixes aaand:
Namespaces – so we can section off bits of code properly. Woohoo! more info here.
Short post today I know, but I’ve got some real coding to do :) If you’re not doing anything better, go download PHP and have a play with it.
Facebook Username Vanity URLs
Posted by Howard Yeend in web on June 10, 2009
This has been brewing for quite a few days now, but when you next log in to facebook you’ll see that it’s official: We’re going to get usernames:
Save & Follow
