Author: Leonid Mamchenkov

Cool stuff in upcoming WordPress 3.6

WordPress 3.6 is not too far away, with the first beta already released last week.   WordPress VIP blog did a very nice and very visual overview of the changes and new features in the release.  For me personally, these are the highlights: log out notifications, better autosave, and a new look for post formats.

WordPress logout notification

Things that I still hope to see one day in WordPress are: some sort of standard for post formats (cross-theme support, mobile app support, etc), and easier way of development and deployment across multiple environments (dev/test/live servers, etc).  Regardless of my pending wishes, WordPress is still an awesome piece of software, which gets even more awesome with each release.

PHP is meant to die

PHP is meant to die

This one is not your average PHP bashing.  It only covers one, but rather generic, problem with PHP – dying, no matter what.  Personally, I am familiar with the problem and I had to work around it as well (that’s how Locker came to be), but I’ve never had a project with high enough load to trigger a major issue.

There’s more to this. If you’ve used PHP an awful lot , you may have experienced this very weird issue:

Fatal error: Exception thrown without a stack frame in Unknown on line 0

What does that mean? I honestly have no idea. I can’t find the line #0 into an unknown PHP file.

Cyprus, what’s going on?

Reading the news these days is interesting.  Have a look at the following snippets, for example.

One:

THE CABINET has decided to fire the chairman of Cyprus’ natural gas company, DEFA, because of serious misconduct, government spokesman Christos Stylianides said yesterday.

Two:

THE HOUSE Ethics Committee will look into whether parliament was misled by the Central Bank of Cyprus (CBC) governor over the terms of reference of an investigation he launched into the island’s banking debacle.

Three:

ON SUNDAY a Greek newspaper carried a report that Attorney-general Petros Clerides had suspended prosecution for driving offences against his son.

Clerides, declined to comment until Monday night on a television current affairs show where although he was not specific about the reported offences – drink driving and not having an MOT – he did confirm that an offence had taken place and that he had suspended prosecution.

Everybody who spent even a few month in Cyprus knows how corrupt is the government.  But lately there is a flood of reports on all sorts of government officials.  What’s going on?  Did people have enough finally?