22 November 2024
Events from the future Vs strict API validation
The first time you install an SSL certificate is very much like the first time you make love to a woman...… Read more »
Tagged: php
23 March 2023
Open source contribution: Open API validator
I wonder if others experience the same rush of excitement that I do when I discover a bug in an open source package? Spotting an opportunity to contribute an improvement is novel and exciting. I anticipate my pull-request being welcomed with great enthusiasm, celebrated and immediately merged... but that's rarely what happens. For example take […]… Read more »
16 January 2017
Adventures in static site generation
Here's a fact: A static web page like 'about-me.html' is stored in a simple text file so when a browser requests it from the web server it just has to open the file and send the contents back. It's a pretty fast operation. But a dynamic page like 'about-me.php' contains code that needs to be pre-processed […]… Read more »
14 October 2016
Fun with Drupal 8 and RaspberryPi
I have recently been working on a project for a local charitable organisation. I am building them a user-generated content site (in Drupal 8) that will receive it's content from a hand-held scanner (running on a RaspberryPi). The user stories are this: The Consumer: Ethically minded, tech-savvy individual is about to buy a second hand book […]… Read more »
13 July 2015
What is the skv prefix and when to use it
JSON strongly binds the variable name and the variable value, making our code more robust. But I was frustrated by the lack of distinction between an object that could be safely JSONified and those that could not.… Read more »
12 August 2013
Coldfusions cfDump / writeDump() for PHP
phDump is a PHP-equivalent of Adobe Coldfusion's excellent debugging feature, CFDump. The screenshot above shows phDump neatly and clearly displaying the complicated nested data structure returned by Twitter's API. A visual tool like this makes it so much easier to understand during development. I built this to serve the niche group of developers (of which I am […]… Read more »