January 2008
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Taking the Zend certification exam
I am proud to announce that I have recently passed Zend’s PHP5 certification exam. I took the test, together with three of my colleagues, in a local test centre here in Ljubljana. The exam was generously paid for by our employer, who I had been trying to persuade to sign us up for more than a year before. In the next few paragraphs I will try to describe the entire experience as much as possible,...
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A PHP mbstring bug?
As you might already know, the PHP mbstring extension supports a feature called Function Overloading. If turned on, this feature overloads multi-byte string functions on the respective standard string functions. That means that whenever you call a standard string function (like strlen()), it’s multi-byte counterpart (mb_strlen()) is called automatically behind the scenes. This is indeed a very...
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Back online
After almost six months of absence from the internet, I am finally back online!
It all started in August 2007, when I moved closer to the centre of Ljubljana. Before, I had lived on the outskirts of Ljubljana, and had had a broadband internet access — albeit only a 1024k/256k ADSL — for more than 4 years. As you can imagine, I had no doubts whatsoever of being able to acquire a broadband...