André Roaldseth

While working with some code that should compare two different instances of the same class I discovered a “hidden” feature in PHP. I was going to compare several private properties between to objects and started making a piece of code to perform the actual comparison using getters for the properties.

Composer is the defacto standard dependency manager for PHP out there, also here in VG. We use it for not only our internal packages, but for all external packages like ZF2, Symfony, PHPUnit, etc. For the most parts it has been a pleasant experience, but it creates a hard dependency towards

If you create single page applications with Backbone.js or similiar you will end up with websites which requires JavaScript. This is not a big problem when it comes to regular user-agents, but Google will not be able to see your content. We solve this issue by using PhantomJS.

Do you want automatic completion for remote paths when using svn in bash? Do you want to switch easier between branches? I’ve written a small script that gives you autocompletion for all remote paths.

The Bootstrapping process in Zend Framework isn’t perfect. You’ll often end up bootstrapping a lot of resources that you don’t need to complete the request. Depending on the resources this can be really expensive and hurt your overall performance. The worst kind are resources that open connections to external services

Some time ago I saw a

This post is a follow-up to Safari on iOS 5 randomly switches images. In our case almost all of the images on the front page has unique height * width combinations. Since our CMS sets the image size with height/width attributes in the element and rescales the image file to fit

Since the release of iOS 5 we’ve received several bug reports about images randomly displaying the wrong image(s) on our front page for smartphones. It seems to be completely random and could affect any of the images, anywhere and anyhow. During one week we would receive anywhere between two and

See how you can use recursion in PHP to create a tree structured array with a single pass.

Using the memory/temporary stream provided by php:// stream wrapper you  can create a stream with read and write access directly to RAM or to a temporary file. This gives you the possibilty to write unit tests that does not rely on a specific file, resource or stream, but rather on