After spending way too much time figuring out how to add modules to existing PHP installations on OSX, I realized this should be worth sharing. The procedure below works on Leopard, but should work on Tiger just as well (just not tested).... » read this

This article will discuss the headache-giving "magic quotes" feature of PHP, which will be removed in PHP 6. I will highlight the idea behind it, explain how it exactly works, the problems it creates for developers, and finally:... » read this

Yesterday I got myself in a fight with a minus -. Browsers will regard a minus as an excellent opportunity to softbreak your content. So guess what happens if you want to squeeze a negative number (say -19,95) in a small table cell?... » read this