September 2010
7 posts
Textpattern CMS 4.3.0 Release Candidate →
Another release (candidate) from the Textpattern.com-Crew. Bringing many improvements and is a first step to a table less admin area. Rocks.
Happy retirement to The Carver: new logo courtesy of Philipp Schilling (aka belipe)
Optional image constant ihu for serving static images
Textpacks for distributing localised strings
Improved search ability with search modes “any” or “all”
New image...
A new version of Textile is out! →
The fine folks at Textpattern have released the new version of Textile, the plain text semantic markup pseudo language that rocks.
Enabled UTF-8 characters in uppercased acronyms if Unicode compiled into PCRE
Fixed rendering bug if acronym title contains 3+ uppercase chars — thanks
Ruud
Handle single quotes better if Unicode compiled into PCRE. Fixes Issue 26
Fixed double span...
World of Traffic Signs →
Great collection of photos of traffic signs by @opentype. I’d really liked to show one or two photos here, but it’s all rights reserved.
what to do when unserialize fails
Using PHP’s serialize function to serialize and array or object where some element is a string with UTF8 data creates the serialized string properly. However, unserialize function fails to unpack that data.
The solution I find to work (not sure if it’s perfect though) is to use mb_unserialize function (found in comments of PHP manual).
function mb_unserialize($serial_str) {
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If Rule #1 is No Working on Weekends, Rule #2 is No Rigid Rules. Things will...
– Dave Caolo: A Freelancer’s Schedule — Nice article about the schedule of a freelancer. It’s important to see how others do it.