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A kilobyte of comments

I’m not sure which fact is more hilarious (or sad): that I have a three-line function with twenty-eight lines of comments, or that the function exists at all. At some point I was instructed not to use public variables and to create getters and setters for everything. Encapsulation is

Bitten by $_REQUEST

Totally unrelated to The Vampire Rule,1 today I got a practical lesson in PHP request precedence. I’ve seen for years recommendations not to use the superglobal $_REQUEST [http://php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.request.php] along with a variety of explanations why to avoid it. These explanations

Yet Another Stupid Perl Versus PHP Rant

Especially because of all the work I’ve been doing in Drupal, I’ve switched most of my development efforts away from Perl solutions and started working mostly with PHP. The «Perl versus PHP» flamewars on the Internet are all over the place and usually full of nonsense. I really