PHP Global Variables Effectively Depricated? Initially I was trying to design things with PHP4 compatibility, and one of the key features PHP4 lacked was static and private variables. To work around the inability to have static variables, I used several singleton classes that had member variables... http://wunder-ful.com/programming/ Thu, 16 Oct 2008 01:44:41 GMT Groupy 0.89 http://wunder-ful.com/programming/php_global_variables_effectively_depricated Initially I was trying to design things with PHP4 compatibility, and one of the key features PHP4 lacked was static and private variables. To work around the inability to have static variables, I used several singleton classes that had member variables... Sat, 11 Oct 2008 08:04:18 GMT http://wunder-ful.com/programming/firefox_3.0rc1_2 I just installed the latest Firefox, and man am I happy. The previous beta version (5) was really leaking memory like a sieve. After upgrading to hardy heron (the latest version of Ubuntu), my hard drive was just going crazy. Thinking that I just needed more RAM (my laptop only has 512) just to have eclipse running with firefox and my email open... Fri, 23 May 2008 03:29:09 GMT http://wunder-ful.com/programming/ubuntu_hardy_heron I highly recommend Hardy Heron, it fixed several noticeable bugs in Gutsy. No longer does evolution start up with error messages about being unable to connect to my POP email (even though it works fine after it starts up). Accessing FTP and SSH ftp sites seems to be much more stable with the gvfs conversion... Tue, 06 May 2008 06:14:50 GMT http://wunder-ful.com/programming/debugging_web_services As I was implementing the XMLRPC Services for the Wordpress API I was struggling with figuring out how to debug it. At first I was using wireshark (a packet capture tool), but that was capturing a bunch of packets I didn't need to see as well as not pairing request with responses... Sat, 05 Jan 2008 21:14:23 GMT http://wunder-ful.com/programming/wordpress-themes wunder-ful The old theme for this site. A blue three-column template based on gila 1.1. Requires Photopress . Also includes the gallery template for photopress, these should be put in the plugins/photopress/ directory. Wunderful boxology The theme for this site... Fri, 04 Jan 2008 06:58:35 GMT http://wunder-ful.com/programming/wordpress-plugins I have written several Wordpress plugins, feel free to download them and give them a wirl. Most of them were written for the deal site BargainMeister.com .  These plugins are no longer being actively developed. View Count Counts the number of times a post was viewed and allows you to display that count... Fri, 04 Jan 2008 06:55:25 GMT http://wunder-ful.com/programming/dynacomponents DynaComponents are lightweight JavaScript widgets designed to provide flexible and functional tools while using minimum bandwidth. They are designed for modern browsers and are tested under firefox, and IE6. Help in testing on other platforms would be appriciated... Fri, 04 Jan 2008 06:43:46 GMT http://wunder-ful.com/programming/new-theme I got a small freelance job, part of which will be doing a wordpress theme and a mediawiki theme. I thought I would make a new theme for my blog just to brush up on my skillz. So enjoy my boxology theme, and if you like it head over to my wordpress theme page. Fri, 04 Jan 2008 06:25:13 GMT http://wunder-ful.com/programming/dynacomponents-fix Sorry, but I made some mistakes in the last version of the components. The core event handling functions were exploding on IE. I love the way IE does strange things with the event variable. Passing the event variable from the event handler to another function fails to pass the event! Event is clearly niether a function scope or global scope variable... Fri, 04 Jan 2008 06:24:54 GMT http://wunder-ful.com/programming/new-version-of-dynacomponents I released a new version of DynaComponents. It is mostly code cleanup, but the one notable and requested feature is a format method on the Date object. Calling date.format("Y/M/D") will return a string with "2006/5/14". right now only the year... Fri, 04 Jan 2008 06:24:02 GMT