20071211 UTF-8 checklist

Following the discussion in the previous post (Reasons for using UTF-8) I thought it could be interesting to gather a series of steps needed to get a UTF-8 friendly environment. I’m going to focus on php and mysql, because using mysql and ruby/rails and utf8 tends to be kind of easier (specially since newer Rails [...]

20071203 Reasons for using UTF-8

The subject on encoding is quite confusing and at the beginning one does never really know what are the differences between encoding types, and most importantly, what are the consequences of choosing ISO-8859 instead of UTF-8, so now that I begin to have more arguments than the Trust me, I think this is the right [...]

20070731 Libraries and frameworks

I often get asked for recommendations about libraries and frameworks, and I also find myself often in the middle of discussions between the opponents and the supporters of libraries and frameworks. To be honest, those discussions/wars are pretty much stupid because nobody takes the time to understand properly what’s going on, and from my point [...]

20070622 Señales de que tu PHP necesita una refactorización

Dado que a bastante gente le gustó el Signs your php needs refactoring y unas cuantas personas insinuaron la necesidad de una traducción al español, he decidido actuar proactivamente y hacerlo yo misma. Y sin más dilación, sigue el artículo en castellano. Recientemente, he tenido que trabajar con una aplicación en php que no sólo [...]

20070605 Signs your PHP needs refactoring

I have had to go through a php application recently which has given me more than one headache and has required me to use all my possible patience. While working with it, I thought This is good material for an article, so that nobody else does the same in the future, and nodody else will [...]