Development

Articles related to the software that I develop, use or get madly frustrated with.

StringParser,
your guide to sanity

Let me show you how to parse complex strings without completely loosing your mind.

A public Doccy API

A simple public API for processing Doccy formatted text over HTTP.

You should really start namespacing your PHP

Namespaces have been usable since PHP 5.3, that’s a whole two and a bit years in which your code could’ve been a whole lot neater.

In this article I’ll show you the basics you need to know to make use of namespaces.

Doccy, a “mid–weight” markup language

Doccy is a new “mid–weight” markup language, it sits somewhere between Markdown and plain old HTML.

Best suited for technical writing on the web — but probably not something you want your clients using.