Cloud = Lazy

Just over a year ago, I moved my web hosting from a dedicated server to what is now the Rackspace Cloud.

My main reason for doing this were a desire to stop maintaining my own systems while still having plenty of room for growth as I take on new clients and create new projects. System maintenance is a time sync I cannot afford.

Having said this, I continued to maintain my own dev server at home. This was my… More

ext/dom and libxml2 charset and entities behaviors

In case you are unaware, there is [as of PHP 5.1.0] a second argument to the DomDocument->SaveXML() method.

This argument currently only supports one value which is the constant LIBXML_NOEMPTYTAGS. This option makes sure that you do not end up with <tag /> but instead, <tag></tag>. This can make things easier if you need more predictable text to perform other changes on later.

However, in playing around with the option, I noticed that my markup changed somewhat significantly in size… More

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it is with a passion that I hate MySQL today. just like every other day.

@dshafik [6 hours ago]

@skoop yay! congrats :)

@dshafik [10 hours ago]

@lig on top. just put it on top.

@dshafik [10 hours ago]

@dshafik Yep, that feature will definitely be in 0.3.2.

@johnwinter [15 hours ago]

@dshafik I agree. I don't like his music much, but the man can play and can put on a great show.

@vidluther [20 hours ago]

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