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Using Xdebug in MAMP 18 Sep 2012 | 02:13 pm

My current web development environment basically consists of a Macbook Pro running Mountain Lion, PHPStorm 5.0 and Virtual Box running one ore more virtual Ubuntu Servers with everything needed. Corre...

Getting to grips with an existing XML structure 25 Apr 2012 | 01:17 am

Very often I find myself writing input filters for large XML files using PHP. Common enough task; and PHP offer a great variety of tools to do this effectively depending on the situation. Unfortunatel...

Background color for inline text 12 Oct 2011 | 12:47 am

In searching for a solution to a CSS problem I had I stumbled over another interesting problem, similar to mine. Most people seemed to agree that it was impossible to do in pure CSS. The effect those...

PHP development on Mac – my experience 5 Jul 2011 | 12:13 am

A while ago I saw a lot of people writing about their PHP development environment and tools. I didn’t get around to it at the time but yesterday I found me some time to write down my experiences of mo...

Setting up a new company 18 Oct 2010 | 08:37 pm

In July, after another few months in Spain as a PHP consultant for a European debt collection company, I have been trudging along with my family in Kalmar. I am still doing consultancy work as a PHP d...

The MongoDB vs MySQL debate… 8 Sep 2010 | 06:36 pm

Same stupid debate as so often before. Just the topics are different from time to time. Found via the Swedish Utvbloggen, RWW, highscalability och myNoSQL. Subscribe to the comments for this post? S...

Recent activity… 26 May 2010 | 09:53 am

Busy is good – but not being too busy. Recently I feel like I having been a bit too busy. A long time now me and my partner have been working on a new Swedish event guide. Completely written in Zend F...

Detecting UTF BOM – byte order mark 28 Apr 2010 | 08:43 pm

When integrating systems with many different data sources and systems across Europe you are bound to eventually run in to issues with UTF-8 and national character sets as for example the Swedish ISO-8...

Dynamically change z-index on Google Maps markers 5 Feb 2010 | 04:12 am

As many have noticed Google Maps API does not include a setIndex() method on the marker. You can set the z-index when adding a marker to the map. But it is not possible to change this afterwards. I d...

Moving on to php 5.3 and Zend Server CE 21 Jan 2010 | 01:21 pm

I have had some serious issues with one of my servers these last days. But finally things are starting to get back to normal. It seems /var was full due to mysql wreaking havoc for no particular reaso...

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