“It is simple, really. It is exactly like Google, but better. We are going to have an extra button on the search page.” We hear it every week. Some business guy has the next greatest thing since sliced bread. It is exactly like some other application, web services, or mobile app but better. OK, we get that. There [...]
10
Jun
WordPress Activation Hook
We recently discovered an issue in our commercial plugins related to a change in the WordPress API. It turns out that since WordPress 3.1 was released the register_activation_hook() function is no longer called during a plugin upgrade! This is a significant change in behavior from previous versions that called the WordPress activation hook on every [...]
21
Oct
PHP Puts the Un in Unset
Recently I have seen—both in our code and that of others—the use of unset() in PHP as a means of reclaiming memory. I do not think this a good practice, and in my opinion we should not consider it part of our toolbox. Mainly because I worry it gives a false sense of aid, when [...]
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