Ferry Boender
Programmer, DevOpper, Open Source enthusiast.

This is for Dutch people only I’m afraid. If you’re curious… RaboBank internet bankieren heeft een kicken ‘Download’ feature waar je je volledige rekeningen overzicht kan downloaden. Dat scheeuwt natuurlijk om het genereren van zinloze statistieken. (Lies, damned lies and statistics!). Zie hier, RaboGRAP. (Ik weet het; zinloze titel. Het betekend ‘Rabo Gegenereerde Rapportages’. Hip, […]
CorePHP took the PHP 6 Developer Meeting notes minutes, which covers the discussion on the upcoming changes in PHP6, and made it into an nice summary article. Interesting stuff. Looks like they’ll be breaking a lot of stuff such as removing the dreaded ‘Register Globals’ option, Safe mode and Magic Quotes. Good. This piece of […]
I used to name my projects based on really cool acronyms like “PROMS” (Project Management System) and “Nimf” (Non-irritating Manager of Files). When I got a bit more serious about my little programmings, I decided not to give them nonsensical names anymore but instead tried to come up with original, but more importantly, meaningful names. […]
Version 0.5 of RSSMerger is available. Changes in this release include: (My)SQL insert queries can now be generated for inserting into a database.
Programmers should understand Unicode because * It is one of the cornerstones of software internationalization. * The Web is full of Unicode data. * XML and HTML are based on Unicode. * WinNT-based operating systems use Unicode for all string values internally. This article is a short course on Unicode programming. Every programmer, but especially […]
Many languages (amongst them Python and Perl) provide a way to directly assign the parts of a split string to variables. The syntax usually used is something like: firstname, lastname = “John,Doe”.split(“,”); or something similar. PHP does not support such a syntax. The programmer instead has to perform all spliting, checking and assigning himself. This […]
About CTags Ctags is a great utility. It creates a file with a list of ‘tags’ that are found in various program sources that it finds in the directory where you run it. These tags can then be read by editors so that they know where in the source to find, for instance, the definitions […]
www.SorryNorwayDenmark.com. Finally some people with sense.
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