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on Aug. 27, 2014
Natural Language Sorting with MongoDB London, UK Wednesday, August 27th 2014, 09:33 BST Arranging English words in order is simple—well, most of the time. You simply arrange them in alphabetical order. However sorting a set of German words, or French words with all their accents, or Chinese with th…
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on Aug. 21, 2014
On Backwards Compatibility and not Being Evil London, UK Thursday, August 21st 2014, 16:31 BST This is a repost of an email I sent to PHP internals as a reply to: And since you're targetting[sic] the next major release, BC isn't an issue. This sort of blanket statements that "Backwards Compatibilit…
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on Jul. 16, 2014
No to a Uniform Variable Syntax London, UK Wednesday, July 16th 2014, 16:48 BST As you might have heard, PHP developers voted on an RFC called "Uniform Variable Syntax". This RFC "proposes the introduction of an internally consistent and complete variable syntax". In general, this RFC argues for ma…
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on Jun. 18, 2014
Dead Code London, UK Wednesday, June 18th 2014, 09:13 BST Frequently I've been asked why Xdebug sees "dead code" in places where people don't expect it. Most often this is related to PHPUnit's Code Coverage in the following situations: 1: The explanation for this is rather simple. Xdebug checks cod…
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on May. 6, 2014
Mapping Lubumbashi London, UK Tuesday, May 6th 2014, 19:26 BST I spent last Saturday helping out HOT, the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team, to improve the map of Lubumbashi, Congo. This session focussed on digitizing the data that was acquired on the ground by volunteers. But this was not where the…
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on Apr. 9, 2014
Cursors and the Aggregation Framework London, UK Wednesday, April 9th 2014, 09:29 BST With MongoDB 2.6 released, the PHP driver for MongoDB has also seen many updates to support the features in the new MongoDB release. In this series of articles, I will illustrate some of those. In this article, I…