Tag: rant

To deprecate or not to deprecate

July 26, 2011
PHP, PHP related, WTF

As of version 5.3 of PHP, certain features and functions are [considered deprecated][1]. It comes with the territory. In major version changes, new features are added while old stuff is discarded. Unsurprisingly – and lucky for me, with that change in versions comes yet another WTF for me to rant about.

[1]: http://www.php.net/manual/en/migration53.deprecated.php

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Server updated thanks to WordPress 3.2

July 8, 2011
Uncategorized

I seriously have to double-check my upgrading policies. Only thanks to [Wordpress’ new requirements][1] have I decided to finally update this server.

Though I had to say goodbye to 526 days of uptime, I kinda feel better now knowing it’s not running on *Debian Etch* anymore.

[1]: http://wordpress.org/news/2011/07/are-you-ready-for-wordpress-3-2/

The whitespace of death

February 21, 2011
PHP, PHP related, WTF

As the first entry to the list of my PHP-related WTFs, I present:

**The whitespace of death**

This one has taken me almost a **full hour** to sort out. There may be some good features to PHP, yet this one I don’t think is even one. It should be considered a bug. As my experience has grown in [reporting bugs myself][php-bug1] or trying to [report a bug][php-bug2], I reconsidered and chose not to report it as a “bug”.

[php-bug1]: https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=48458
[php-bug2]: https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=51112

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