All the content previous to this post used to belong to blog.nathanwhitworth.co.uk, there’s no point visiting since it redirects here now.
I run another blog, or more accurately a website full of varying content, at onkudu.com. It was built to document my life as a singlehanded liveaboard sailor on a small boat (21ft, to be precise) [...]
Further to my last post about the quality of code in certain well known PHP projects, I just stumbled across this fantastically pointless finger spew.
function the_title($before = ”, $after = ”, $echo = true) {
$title = get_the_title();
if ( strlen($title) == 0 )
return;
$title = $before . $title . $after;
if ( $echo )
echo $title;
else
return $title;
}
How entirely pointless [...]
This post goes beyond my opinion of Wordpress though, I want it to highlight a more fundimental problem with PHP development. People just don’t seem to be very good at it, and it’s giving PHP a bad name.
I awoke in the morning to find I was no longer 7th, but 1st. I was shocked. I had THE fastest growing blog on all of wordpress…
I decided to rebuild my home page with Zend Framework since it was originally done as little more than static pages.
I’m just giving some link love here since a friend of mine has just launched a new project.
Cardsmart.co.uk is a credit card comparison service and it went live about 3 minutes ago at the time of writing. It’s quite exciting to see the birth of a brand new company, it’s quite a refreshing change given [...]
There, I said it.
Drupal has a huge following and a very impressive community of contributors, it seems to be growing in popularity every week which is made apparent by the number of contracts available requiring Drupal experience. Surely it must be good in that case, right?
Because of this I decided I should make some effort [...]