curly braces

In this new post to his blog Sameer Borate applies an interesting method of discovery of structure in unfamiliar code - generating code signatures.

A while ago I saw a lot of people writing about their PHP development environment and tools. I didn’t get around to it at the time but yesterday I found me some time to write down my experiences of moving from Linux to MacOS X as primary OS for PHP  and web development

On the Mayflower blog today there's a new tutorial posted about creating coding standard "sniffs" for the PHP_CodeSniffer tool.

A "sniff" is what defines the rules for your coding standards to follow (like "curly braces after function definitions should be on the next line" kinds of things).

Mustache (or GitHub repo) is a new templating library from Chris Wanstrath (a.k.a. defunkt of GitHub fame) that provides a way to render views in your chosen Ruby web framework.

On the "Ask About PHP" blog today there's a new post looking at some of the alternative syntaxes that PHP has to offer for control structures.

Bash brace expansion is used to generate stings at the command line or in a shell script. The syntax for brace expansion consists of either a sequence specification or a comma separated list of items inside curly braces "{}".

A sequence consists of a starting and ending item separated by two periods "..".

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[or JavaScript chorma-coding]

While posting Java sources on this blog, I used to wish that the browsers could take care of chroma-coding Java sources just the way they take care of chroma-coding XML files.

It would eliminate the hassle of exporting the sources in HTML format. All one would have to do is paste the Java source in a pre block and viola! you are done with it!