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This site is dead

Posted by admin on January 13, 2011 at 7:07 pm

I don’t post to it any more, but I shall, at some point in future, consider resurrecting it.

Bad Code

Posted by admin on October 8, 2009 at 12:19 pm

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 [...]

Wordpress is shit

Posted by admin on September 30, 2009 at 6:20 pm

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.

Super blogging – My Corribee

Posted by admin on February 16, 2009 at 3:55 pm

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…

Nathan whitworth.co.uk site rebuild

Posted by admin on February 16, 2009 at 3:42 pm

I decided to rebuild my home page with Zend Framework since it was originally done as little more than static pages.

Card Smart

Posted by admin on January 16, 2009 at 6:05 pm

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 [...]

Drupal is shit!

Posted by admin on August 20, 2008 at 1:37 pm

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 [...]