Every day developers will make an uncountable number of decisions while working or run into past decisions that we do not fully understand. How can we organize all this content and simplify the sharing of architectural knowledge? Let’s explore ADRs and how they can support decision making and sharing on various levels.
Every now and then I get e-mails with questions that ask “How can I add X days to a given date?”, “How can I figure the day that corresponds to next thursday?”, and others along the same line. It scares me when I see replies that include enormous codes that execute innumerous function even including some bizarre leap year determination algorithms, I just can’t understand why all the complication and fuss.
The strtotime() function exists to solve these problems and i plan to introduce you to it and show a few usage examples. Also I’m going to check function performance using a simples benchmark comparison.
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RSS, today someone asked me, “what is this?” Well, I know what it is, but at that moment the words failed me, especially the “non-programmer” words, so as to explain to “the common folk” the true meaning of it and some of its uses.
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With the advent of PHP5 a new tool was available to all who wished to optimize their code, its called __autoload. This function can reduce the time lost by having to include object and class files in your code. But how do you proceed in creating an __autoload function to optimize code?
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