Intereactive Web Design - Sugar Land, TX

Benchmarking code is one of those often talked about things that most new to intermediate programmers have probably heard about, but don’t know how to actually do it. Even a quick Google search on it will give you all sorts of mis-information and very labor intensive ways to find where your code is slowing down. [...]

PHP 5.2 brought us native use of a DateTime object for handling dates and times instead of using procedural date(), time() and strtotime() type functions. Among other things, this really helps us move away from thinking of dates and times in seconds (via a unix timestamp) and as such, having to save an integer in [...]

I had a little personal project where I needed to combine my wife’s and my Twitter feed into one common feed. This was so we could display it on our blog and it would show in realtime what we were doing. Not a problem using Yahoo Pipes since our accounts are unprotected and open to [...]