Unlimited Edition - by Michael Odden

I’m the kind of guy who always tries to optimize my ways, especially when it comes programming. Over the last years I’ve worked on/against a multitude of CMS, frameworks and API’s, and quite often make some thoughts how things could be better, easier and more intuitive.
One of these things are regarding how to format a [...]

Combining SSH-aliases with public key authentication, and then I reduced the amount of typing by about 34 chars (from 41 to 7) for each time I connect to one of my usual SSH-servers.
In a day that’ll probably save enough time to go and get me a nice cold beer. Mmm! Ah, those little things

This is an occasionally recurring issue: Using loose comparison (i.e. “==”, “!=”), instead of strict (i.e. “===”, “!==”), in PHP can give some unexpected results.
Some of those are pretty logical – like an empty array compared to 0 or false, returns true – but others not quite that logical.
Example

// returns true
“string” == 0;

// returns false, [...]

Just a little amusing notice.
I came recently across some ads by Komplett.no via Google Ads. The title read “The Legend Of Zelda?”, which – when clicked – took the user to direct search in komplett’s catalog. Too bad the search returns zero hits. Rephrasing the query to “legend of zelda” instead of “the legend of [...]