Florian Eckerstorfer

The array functions in PHP are, like many other things in PHP, a mess.

On Wednesday Apple released iOS 9 and one of its features is the WebKit Content Blocker API which allows developers to create ad and tracker blockers for iOS.

In iOS there is a very specific interaction when using a search bar in a list view.

Two weeks ago I was hiking in Großarl, slept at Loosbühelalm and climbed Draugstein (2359m).

I really love smart playlists in Apple Music.

I often have lots of tabs and panes open in iTerm2 (the best terminal app for OS X) and it takes a while to find the correct one.

When I open Spotify I am presented with its Overview view.

Ever since Apple announced Apple Music at WWDC I was wondering whether it was possible to scrobble played tracks to Last.fm.

John Gruber was guest at the latest episode of Mac Power Users and towards the end he talked with hosts Katie and David about his workflow and some of the scripts, AppleScript and otherwise, he uses.

Gulp is different than other build systems or task runners (like Make, Ant, Phing, Rake, or Grunt) in two major ways.

In 2009 I got a HP Color LaserJet CP1215.

Until recently I used Bower to manage the frontend dependencies, JavaScript and Sass/CSS libraries and NPM to manage Gulp/Grunt and plugins required for my build process.

The Weekly Recommender is a weekly series that I plan to write for two purposes, giving myself a reason to revisit the content I encountered the past week, collect them in one place and make the highlights accessible to my readers.

When dealing with character encodings in MySQL you soon realise that utf8 is not really UTF-8.

It's easy to press star, like, favorite or bookmark in an app while consuming content.

Since a few years I generate a new password for every service I sign up and I use 1Password to manage them for me.

If you are using Doctrine for a project that is bigger than very small you probably have encountered performance problems with hydration.

Most of the time I have too many applications and windows open on my Mac.

When writing an article or code I often need to try something out or create a small benchmark.

When I first dabbled into writing software 15 years ago the world of programming was an easy place.

On Friday I was procrastinating by reading some command line tricks articles and I encountered three commands I haven't noticed before: fortune, cowsay and lolcat.

Quite often I have to write a script that takes data from a source, filter and converts it and stores it some way.

Today Bernhard asked on Twitter where we see asset handling going and I replied that Grunt or Gulp will take over.

In the beginning of May I spent a weekend with some friends in Prague, Czech Republic.

Last Monday Apple released a new programming language for the iOS and Mac platforms: Swift.

I just searched 15 minutes to find out how to resize a image using GraphicsMagick. gm convert -resize 150x100 in.jpg out.jpg This will resize the image in.jpg to 150x100 and saves the result in out.jpg.

Last Saturday I finished reading Creativity, Inc. by Ed Catmull, the president of Pixar Animation and Disney Animation.

There exist a lot of different ways to get third party assets into your project and one such way is Bower.

Regular expressions can match a pattern in a text and return the matches.

Sadly Spotify misses a lot of useful keyboard shortcuts, but fortunately we can use AppleScript and BetterTouchTool to create a shortcut to add a song to the queue.

Guard is a ruby tool to execute commands when file changes and can be used to rebuild a Jekyll site whenever its content changes and Compass whenever the stylesheets change.

One of the best practices in testing code is to use a less information that is context to change in the test code.

Gaufrette, a PHP library, abstracts reading and writing files and allows us to write code independent of the underlying filesystem.

A fun exercise in programming.

PHP can, by default, not create processes that continue to run in the background even after the parent process terminates.