Chris Warburton (warbo)

Chris Warburton

Of course, using strings as functions is giving in to PHP's braindamage. Much better to just use nice higher-order functions.

Chris Warburton

How about "if (in_array($f, array('foo', 'bar', 'baz'))) return call_user_func($f);"

Chris Warburton

Code smell of the day: "switch ($f) { case 'foo': return foo(); case 'bar': return bar(); case 'baz': return baz(); }"

Chris Warburton

Really nice 64K demo "Turtles all the way down" http://ur1.ca/diqwk Probably won't run on my A1200 though :P

Chris Warburton

For example I can assert a page's title is foo by "$this->assertTitle('foo')" or bar by "$this->assertTitle('foo')" but not 'foo or bar' :(

Chris Warburton

Found myself wanting higher-order assertions just now; then realised that's just Boolean logic on the conditions. Give me the conditions!

Chris Warburton

TFW security updates break your unit tests

Chris Warburton

I find it ironic that !PHP has strlen/count, strpos/array_search, etc. while !Haskell has length, elemIndex, etc. :P

Chris Warburton

Mocking SimpleTest with Drupal's SimpleTest, so I can use SimpleMock. I'm having quite a meta day :P

Chris Warburton

EShell has just become even more fantastic

Chris Warburton

Just figured out how to "ssh user@host" then "sudo -u root" using TRAMP in Emacs. Tweaked "recommended for Ubuntu" from http://ur1.ca/dfelo

Chris Warburton

Annoyed that this API requires my array indices to include the string "indexes" >:(

Chris Warburton

Compiling is definitely the most tedious thing to do on my XO-1 :P

Chris Warburton programming

Why is the world full of 'setTimeout("x();", y);' and 'function() { return x(); }' but not 'x = parseInt("10")' or 'x = 10 * 1' !programming

Chris Warburton

Trying to fix an app which overwrites its database on every request, but gets data from OAuth. Every user is clobbering everyone else! #WTF

Chris Warburton PHP

Except for list(), probably the worst set of answers I've ever seen on StackOverflow http://ur1.ca/d9i4q !php

Chris Warburton programming

Just had a look at rust-lang.org . Seems like a modern ML dialect, with C-like syntax. Pretty nice. !programming

Chris Warburton

PHPdoc -> "@return string HTTP Response Code." method body -> "return (int) $this->responseHttpCode;" #DocFail

Chris Warburton

Pet peeve: Negative conditionals which have "else" branches: "if (!a) { ... } else { ... }".

Chris Warburton Python , Todd Howe

@tehowe Javascript is pretty nice, if you steer clear of exceptions, switch, new, for, with and globals (functions are your friends) !python