Creating a Lifestream With Gnip and PHP

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As devel­op­ment on my cms has pro­gressed, I have come to real­ize that I am not a pro­lific writer. How­ever, I do love play­ing with new web ser­vices and tech­nolo­gies, so I have decided to push Nis­aba towards a lifestream for­mat. This will allow me to have fresh con­tent on my site by inter­act­ing with online ser­vices I already use.…

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PHP Serial Class for OS X

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Recently a friend of mine was want­ing to tin­ker with a ser­ial device on his Power­book. Since he was want­ing to even­tu­ally allow device input over HTTP requests, we went off look­ing for a PHP class to help out. Luck­ily, there was a GPL-​licensed PHP Ser­ial class on php​classes​.org by Remy Sanchez. How­ever, it only works under Linux or Win­dows. A few machine lock-​ups later, we appeared to have it working.…

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PHP, Coding Standards, and You, Continued

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Last time, we learned how to use PHPCodeSnif­fer and a lit­tle com­mand line work to cre­ate read­able cod­ing stan­dards val­i­da­tion results (that is a mouth­ful). In this entry, I will doc­u­ment how to inte­grate PHPCodeSnif­fer val­i­da­tion into my edi­tor, SciTE.…

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PHP, Coding Standards, and You

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How styl­ish is the code you pro­duce? I could fur­ther elab­o­rate, but Wikipedia can do that for me.…

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