Found this little bug today in some old (untested code). I was amused that the code would have worked using pre-increment operator (and yet, still been wrong). # Simplified example, in the original code this was 3 lines long # Assume use_record_map = false; record_id = (use_record_map) ? lookup_record_id(foo) : record_id++; Pythons lack of ++ [...]

Yep, I was hacked 5 days ago. Seems I’ve been part of some DOS attack (I forgot to record the IPs of who, and it was only ~60GB of traffic). From what I can tell, it exploited an (old, now patched) hole in PHPMyAdmin that let you write PHP files with what ever content you [...]

Holy Paladin changes in 3.2 seem pretty significant, I’m currently hoping the FoL/HoT mechanic works a little like ignite, where in effect you have n number of buffs up on the target, and WoW just consolidates them into one (As oppose to old ignite rolling, where each time the debuff was added, the damage was [...]

I before E (yuccamuffin.com) <?php     $words = file(’/usr/share/dict/words’);     $words = array_map(’trim’, $words);         // Ignore words with any punctuation     $words = array_filter($words, ‘ctype_alpha’);         foreach($words as $word)     {         // ignore proper nouns (they start with an uppercase [...]

Any normal person would just live without anonymous functions in PHP, they are buggy and non trivial ones are pain to write and read. I’m not sure why I seam to obsess over them. At the very least, the below code will test unicode in your dev tools Edit: Of course after I wrote that [...]