Category: Programming

A big part of my work has to do with code. I’ve worked as system administrator – installing, patching, and configuring someone else’s code. I’ve worked as independent programmer, writing code on my own. I also programmed as part of the team. And on top of that, I worked as Team Leader and Project Manager, where I had to interact a lot with programmers. Programming world on its own is as huge as the universe. There is always something to learn. When I find something worthy or something that I understand enough to write about, I share it in this category.

JavaScript Date.UTC() with a month off by one

It’s like they say – there are two difficult things in Computer Science: naming things, invaliding cache, and off-by-one errors.  Today I came across a weird issue with JavaScript’s Date.UTC() shifting the month by one.  The day and year were fine, but the month was off by one.  Interesting, considering that the date was parsed from a standard MySQL date (like 2013-07-12).   Well, another thing they say: when all else fails, read the manual.  And that’s where the solution is:

Parameters

  • year: A year after 1900.
  • month: An integer between 0 and 11 representing the month.
  • date: An integer between 1 and 31 representing the day of the month.

Fun.

PHP.net design updated

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It’s been a long time pending, but finally, PHP.net updated the design of the website.  The new one doesn’t look anymore that it was done in 1974.  It’s fresh, nice, yet keeps somewhat of the same familiar feeling of the old one.  The search box looks to be updated as well.  I can’t say for sure, since I have a custom search on all my browsers to direct any search query that starts with “php” to php.net.  But it looks like now when you search, the completion will tell you what the dropdown results are – functions, books, etc.