13th May 2018 1:55 pm

Recently I had the occasion to check out MariaDB's implementation of full-text search. As it's a relatively recent arrival in MySQL and…

10th May 2018 10:50 pm

PHP isn't the first language that springs to mind when it comes to machine learning. However, it is practical to use PHP for machine…

29th April 2018 7:59 pm

Recently I've had the occasion to add a series of console commands to a legacy application. This can be made straightforward by using the…

22nd April 2018 10:50 pm

This was a bit of a weird post to write. It started out explaining how I resolved an issue years ago on a CodeIgniter site, but amended to…

12th April 2018 10:57 pm

I'm not going to sugarcoat it. As a developer, I think Wordpress is shit, and I'm not alone in that opinion. Its code base dates from a time…