When asking a colleague which program he recommends for deploying applications, he mentions Maven. I’ve never heard of it before. At first glance one of the things that it does is create standard directory structures. The directory structure that it creates is based on an architecture artifact id. There are over 100 artifact types to [...]
My first look at this language was in the late 1990s. The biggest feature was that you could compile source code to run on a variety of platforms (Windows, Linux, Mac, etc). Traditionally source code was compiled to run for a specific platform and source code modifications were required to allow it to run on [...]
A sequence of characters compose a string. PHP comes equipped with an arsenal of string related functions. This posting will cover three string functions: strlen, strpos and strrpos. Strings are enclosed in a pair of either single or double quotation marks. Characters are taken at face value when enclosed in single doubles. Additional processing occurs [...]
There is one function and one binary operator for determining if a variable is an object. Is_object is_object($aVar) – Determines if $aVar is an object. When $aVar is instantiated (created) from a class, this function returns true. Otherwise it returns false. We need an object to work with. This primitive caveman will suffice. File: Caveman.php [...]