Believe me, I have plenty of negative views about this country, and people in general everywhere, including the UK. I'm 61 years old had have seen a lot of lousy stuff done by humans everywhere, and have read a lot of history about times before even I was alive.

I just would prefer to keep such things away from what I hope is a friendly, accepting place for PHP developers from anywhere in the world: not a place where we single out certain groups for negativity. It's not a question of right/wrong, agree/disagree; but one of wrong place, wrong time. IMHO.

    NogDog;11065379 wrote:

    Believe me, I have plenty of negative views about this country, and people in general everywhere, including the UK. I'm 61 years old had have seen a lot of lousy stuff done by humans everywhere, and have read a lot of history about times before even I was alive.

    I just would prefer to keep such things away from what I hope is a friendly, accepting place for PHP developers from anywhere in the world: not a place where we single out certain groups for negativity. It's not a question of right/wrong, agree/disagree; but one of wrong place, wrong time. IMHO.

    PS: And if you use the word "colonial" one more time in that context...well...I do have moderator powers here.

      a month later

      Well, I guess I have a clue why this fell off the front page, or whatever.

      But ...

      TIL: [man]glob/man sorts by default, and has a GLOB_NOSORT flag. Hopefully will save time (for the process, not for me, LOL ... I'll be looking into a ton of script to see how many would benefit by gaining that flag ...) :rolleyes:

      Hurray for TFM!

      Also did some garbage collection in general on a script that's buggy on a large dataset. Hopefully that will fix it!

        5 months later

        Enter this in your browser's URL bar:

        data:text/html,<h1>Hello, World</h1><p>TIL: You can create a web page in your browser's URL bar.</p>

        Javascript: works up there, too!

        I also learned that there's drag-n-drop support in some of 'em, but it replaces the entire page as well.

          8 days later

          ^ Whoa, now thats interesting!

          Apparently more and more young folks don't know how to use regular keyboards.

            9 days later

            TIL I learned you can dislocate your patella so badly it slips between the femur and tibia. (Fortunately I learned this third-hand.)

              I'd say "glad to hear that", except that wouldn't be nice to your friend/acquaintance. Sounds like quite a fall ....

                Rugby is a tough game...

                But TIL what coddled eggs are. Take the egg out of the shell and put it in a cup (a "coddler"). Put the cup in hot water for a while.

                Can't think of a practical benefit - poach it or boil it, just make up your mind it will be faster either way - but there it is.

                  Sounds like what my mother called "poached eggs", though the cup was a purpose-built teflon-lined metal cup just right for one egg, with a thingy that held 3 such cups in a shallow pot/pan of boiling water (so that the cups were not in contact with the bottom of then pan). [shrug]

                    a month later

                    TIL my scripts would be running a lot faster than they are if someone had remembered to turn off automatic execution tracing a couple of weeks ago. D'oh

                    TIL that in PostgreSQL you can use the MAX() aggregate function on non-numeric column types. (I didn't bother to test what it considers to be "max", as I just needed it to pick one of the possible several matches.)

                      Weedpacket

                      At least there was a switch. What I hate is finding hard-coded debugging during a re-factor.

                      Of course I have never done that ....

                        TIL that a trailing newline character can sneak through this regex:

                        // outputs YES
if (preg_match('/^[a-zA-Z0-9\-_]+$/', "hello-dolly\n")) {
  die("YES"); 
} else {
  die("NO");
}

                        You have to add the /D modifier to exclude a trailing newline. Very sneaky grrrr.

                        // outputs NO
if (preg_match('/^[a-zA-Z0-9\-_]+$/D', "hello-dolly\n")) {
  die("yes");
} else {
  die("no");
}

                          dalecosp
                          Not to mention how I found it. See, some of them were long-running to begin with, so the fact they were taking a long time to complete wasn't itself odd. The process was:

                          "Low disk space? Why? How?" [a couple of minutes later] "What's with all these 150GB logfiles here?"

                          Still, another thing I learned was that I really do need to clean up around here. Anyone interested in a bunch of Indiana University Computer Science Department Technical Reports circa 1978?

                              w00t! Class of '78! (OMG I'm old.)

                                a month later

                                ...that C.O.D. means Collect On Delivery.
                                The thing being collected being the payment.
                                The form of the payment being unspecified.

                                That might just show how often I deal with anything "COD"; I guess back in the day cash was the only way it could be collected.

                                  6 months later

                                  TIL: PDOStatement implements Traversable. In theory I should be able to clean things up a little bit with a foreach($stmt as $row) instead of the while($row = $stmt->fetch()) sort of thing I've always done, I think.

                                  Yeah, not earth-shaking -- just surprised I never knew this after using PDO on a pretty much daily basis for 7+ years now. 🙂

                                  Today I learnt the importance of rest, the highlands are breathe taking

                                  6 days later

                                  Today I learnt

                                  <p id="geo"></p>

<script>

var x = document.getElementById("geo");

function getLocation() {
  if (navigator.geolocation) {
    navigator.geolocation.watchPosition(showPosition);
  } else { 
    x.innerHTML = "Geolocation is not supported by this browser.";
  }
}
    
                                  
function showPosition(position) {
    x.innerHTML="Latitude: " + position.coords.latitude + 
    "<br>Longitude: " + position.coords.longitude;
}
</script>

                                  This first draft of a site is going to be so badly done lol