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Against Inevitability

John Locke Fri, 06/12/2026 - 08:00

Sustainable/Open Business

12 Jun 2026 3:00pm GMT

In addition to the main features announced in previous posts of this series, Symfony 8.1 includes many smaller improvements that make day-to-day work easier. This post highlights the first batch. Convert Between UUIDv7 and UUIDv4…

12 Jun 2026 9:31am GMT

Drupal and EmDash point to different assumptions about how publishing systems should be built and operated. The comparison places Drupal's established governance, workflow, and extension model against EmDash's beta-preview, Astro-based approach to serverless publishing and programmatic content operations. The issue is less about which CMS has more features and more about which operating model fits an organisation's infrastructure, editorial control, development workflow, and tolerance for newer technology.

12 Jun 2026 8:07am GMT

What is an error? Goal: diagnose Verifying Axioms Divide and Conquer (Bisecting the problem) Reading and Understanding the Error Effective Debugging Searching the internet AI Chatbot Rubber Duck Technique Turn it off and on again Asking for help What if it doesn't get solved? Plan B Conclusion If you work as a programmer, you'll have found yourself many times in a situation where something isn't working and you don't know what's going on. But the real problem comes when you don't know how...

11 Jun 2026 4:36pm GMT

Contributed by Fabien Potencier in #4131 ,…

11 Jun 2026 11:05am GMT

Symfony 8.1 includes many small features and improvements across different components. This is the second article in the series that highlights some of the most useful DX (developer experience) improvements. Map Request Headers to Controller Arguments…

11 Jun 2026 7:15am GMT

Last week I helped the folks at ezSystems debug some APC problems they were having. The problems ended up being a 64bit architecture problem (they have uber-fast Opterons) and the bug is now fixed in 2.0.3.

Today I received Python & XML from them (off my Amazon wishlist). Thanks guys!

On a side note, my wishlist seems borked. The list I get when I search on my email address or name is not the same one I can edit when I log into the site.

01 Apr 2004 6:53pm GMT

1st of April 2004 get's to it's end and I guess it's time, to summarize the recent April fools a bit. Not that I think anyone in the world believes in them, but some were quite funny:

1. Changes to case sensitivity in PHP.
Alan Knowles announced that PHP will change to the studlyCase API and therefor will get everything broken by changing established functions.

2. IBM takes over Zend.
Myself hacked a little article about IBM taking over Zend to make PHP a compete of Java.

3. The first PHP virus has been seen.
Wasn't there one last year, too?

4. PHP has been overtaken by Micro$oft.
Mhhh... a little bit unreliable, if they had been taken over by IBM this morning... Maybe one should first look, what others wrote...

5. And finally, PHP4 and 5 showed their real faces...
Take a look at a phpinfo() output!

I guess I missed some, so feel free to comment on this entry, if you found another!

01 Apr 2004 5:49pm GMT

Symantec have a report of the virus here. I've yet to see any of the PHP news sites picking up on it but, using a virtual host account, managed to deliberately expose some PHP scripts to it. From examining the infected scripts, what's disturbing is once infected, every tim...

01 Apr 2004 12:19pm GMT