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Feb 23 2010

Using derivated Exception classes for better error handling

One defect that I’ve been finding once and again in the past doing .NET projects is a bad exception handling strategy. Too many times I’ve seen code that just places a generic try { … } catch(Exception ex) { … } code block to capture errors. And of course...
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Sep 23 2009

Working with PHP, six months later

Now that I’m back from a small vacations, time to get back to blogging too! A bit more than six months ago, I changed once again where I work , but this time it was not only a new company, but a new world, with PHP as the flagship. Six months later, I...
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Aug 01 2009

Your worst enemy: Ignorance

This post will surely appear as a flame for some people, but I can’t avoid talking about it now that I work in a very heterogeneous workplace and I’m part of the smaller slice of Windows users. It started being funny, being asked things like “but Microsoft...
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May 03 2009

Arrays in PHP, or to be precise, Collections in PHP

PHP has some serious structural problems. It’s code is a mess of functions, function names are too similar to the old C functions (“ strstr ”, “ strlen ”, etcetera), but by far, the most confusing element of PHP (at first) are its Arrays . For any developer...
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Apr 05 2009

Zero-cost PHP debugging and testing environment

One of the nice things of developing in Linux-oriented scenarios (although I use Windows }:) is having free tools that sometimes shine for their quality. Leaving apart the decision of the PHP IDE (there are a great range of both free and commercial ones...
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Mar 30 2009

The problem of untyped languages: PHP empty() function

There are a few programming languages that work nicely without typing (for example, Javascript or PHP). They have their advantages, but I just can’t put them on the same level of a strongly typed language like C# or Java, and here is an example that any...
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Feb 09 2009

Learning PHP + a small WIP PHP5 Manual

One of the interviews I’m currently doing to search for a new job is for developing with PHP/MySQL/Linux. While this could seem shocking at first (just looking at the tag cloud on the right of the blog anyone can see I’m a .NET developer), it’s not the...
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Oct 12 2008

Getting started with ASP.NET MVC and LINQ

I wanted to wait until I had a more finished version of the website, but I must express my satisfaction of how good ASP.NET MVC and LINQ are to speed up web development. I'm building a website for my new project, The Dark Portal . The Dark Portal...
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May 01 2007

Why is PHP so successful?

I'm now hosting and maintaining a PHPBB forum boards for some friends, and each day I'm more angry with PHP. It's widely used, mostly in "open-source environments", because as it runs under Linux and supports MySQL,it's very common to see free hosting...
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