Sometime ago I saw some framework where all files missed PHP closing tags, I wondered why ? Simply, this tag is not required by PHP parser, interesting when this was introduced. But one advantage of this is elimination of hunting down final carriage return character in the end file. This additional CR mess up the output when including.
In projects with 200+ code files, one simple return at the end of file can cause bugs hard to find.
It is often required to publish some code snippets in the blog on PHP or other popular languages like Python, Ruby... Here is simple way to do this..
Stardict is a popular open source dictionary program as well as file format for storing dictionaries. There are alternatives of StarDict, some of them better, some worse. But I never meet some WEB application to use dictionaries in StarDict format and interface through the web browser. I found this little interesting and created one...
Every PHP developer faces script debug issues. Simple way of var_dump variable content to HTML is of course the simplest but not convenient. It crashes site design and is not suitable for large amount of data.
I'd like to advertise nice tool to solve this issue. HackerConsole by dkLab, it is simple, fast and easy to use.