The Hind Leg

The BDP

Simon — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 10:58:53 +0800

Like any small business owner will tell you, corporate tax deductable toys are your legislative right. It gives you an excuse to splurge those hard earned pretax company dollars on gadgets you personally don’t particularly need or can afford. It also silences that annoying little retail therapy demon that sits on your right shoulder, who I swear is on commission.

Dynamic properties in classes?

Cameron — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 10:07:32 +0800

I found this blog post on Reddit this morning...

http://www.krisjordan.com/2008/11/27/dynamic-properties-in-php-with-stdc...

... discussing dynamic class properties in PHP. Well, as it turns out, PHP by default just lets you do whatever the hell you want with properties, which seems like a bad idea to me, I've always defined getters and setters to access protected properties, but I do like the idea of defining the __set() magic method to throw an exception, to stop any other devs working on the project from utilizing this "feature" of PHP's.

What should you buy me for Christmas?

Cameron — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 22:27:24 +0800

I'm the type of guy who doesn't really care much about "stuff", but if you buy me this:

http://www.deathsauce.com.au/sixpack.html

I might just love you forever. I've tried some of Blair's Sudden Death before, a toothpick with a visible wiping of sauce sent me in to half an hour of really quite distressing pain. What could be better for the holiday period than idiotically hot chilli sauces?

You wouldn't read about it

Cameron — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 11:35:44 +0800

No sooner than we're settled in to our new office, than the inevitable happens. One Sunday afternoon, I'm casually sitting around at home, relaxing a bit after a long week at work, when Simon calls me...

"Hey mate, can you come down the office? You're not going to believe this, but there's been a flood".

Now this seemed somewhat unusual, because the last time I checked global warming hadn't quite taken hold, it hadn't been raining, and most importantly, we're on the second floor. That's one hell of a flood.

PHP5's new namespace separator - a backslash?!

Cameron — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 08:52:04 +0800

The Internet is pretty much blowing up right now over the news that the guys upstairs building PHP have decided that they're going to use \ as the separator for the new namespaces implementation in PHP 5.3.