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Check whether a string starts with a prefix in PHP

SnippetFebruary 12, 20141 min read

Style a placeholder across browsers

SnippetOctober 31, 20131 min read

The vendor prefixes still worth writing, and the ones that are not

NoteOctober 29, 20132 min read

Most prefixed declarations in a stylesheet are copied from a snippet that was correct in 2010 and has not been reviewed since. Some are still doing work at…

Escape output for an HTML attribute in PHP

SnippetOctober 16, 20131 min read

Grunt watch turns save-and-refresh into one step

NoteMay 16, 20132 min read

Compass compiles the stylesheets and JSHint checks the scripts, and both are run by hand until somebody forgets. grunt-contrib-watch is the piece that makes a task runner worth…

PSR-2 is a style guide you can enforce, not argue about

NoteFebruary 12, 20132 min read

PSR-1 and PSR-2 came out of PHP-FIG at the end of last year, and their value is not that four spaces beat a tab. It is that the…

PSR-2 settled the brace argument by writing it down

NoteSeptember 4, 20123 min read

PHP-FIG accepted PSR-1 and PSR-2 in August, and the useful thing about them is not that any particular choice is correct. Several are plainly arbitrary. It is that…

Introducing Composer to a CodeIgniter application

Deep diveJune 26, 20129 min read

Four unversioned libraries in application/libraries, two of them edited in place. Moving the application onto Composer and PSR-0 without giving up the framework’s own loader.

Short array syntax is a 5.4 upgrade, not a style choice

NoteMarch 18, 20122 min read

PHP 5.4 arrived on 1 March with [] as a literal array, and because it looks like a formatting preference it turns up in changes as though it…