Nathan Waelkens

caniuse.com command tool

“Just what you’ve always wanted, it’s a caniuse command line tool! All the power of caniuse.com with none of the nice UI or interactivity.”

https://github.com/sgentle/caniuse-cmd

Install with npm install -g caniuse-cmd.
The type something like:

caniuse svg filters

Awesome PHP is just awesome

Awesome PHP is a list of PHP resources, an awesome list.

Just have a look for yourself

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How to make brewskis for coding dudes

Brewski: Beer. “Lets pound some brews.”
Code: A computer program. Also used as a verb. “That dude can really code!”
Dude: Any living humanoid. “Those dudes at Intel are boss”.

Why would you use the Command Line?

To check the weather offcourse.
$ curl wttr.in #automatically tries to find out your location

Or just expose manually your location
$ curl wttr.in/bali-indonesia # 😉

PHP’s popular package system exists 5 years. Only five years? Yep, and the world can’t do without it anymore. The creator, Jordi Boggiano, launched version 1.0.0 today and created a collectorsitem to celebrate – a golden datacarrier 🙂 carrying version 1.0.0.

Hilarious license incompatibility. Seriously!

skull ‘Provisioning’ my virtual development machine just resulted in a Fatal Error.

Fatal error: Call to undefined function json_decode()

… to find out that this is because of a license conflict.

JSON License:

“The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil.”

This is incompatible with Debians Free Software Foundation’s (FSF) freedom 0:

“The freedom to run the program for any purpose.”

Now my wooden shoe breaks! (?)
Here you can find a solution against this obvious fatality.

Edit: The solution above didn’t work for me. Adding jsonc as follows in my /puphpet/config.yml file did the trick:

php:
install: ‘1’
settings:
version: ’56’
modules:
php:
– cli
– intl
– curl
– gd
pear: { }
pecl:
– jsonc

Joomla 3.5 – identity crisis?

I really loved Joomla! in its early days. I still remember working with Mambo CMS. 🙂 Yesterday Joomla 3.5 came out. Is it me or are the new features really dissapointing? Personally I think Joomla! is in an identity crisis. Is it about content? Is it about managing a website? Is it a platform? It’s a bit everything, thus nothing? This raises questions like:
What is a CMS nowadays?
Is it still about the content?
Why is WordPress so popular?
Will content manage solutions like prismic.io and contentful.com survive?
Can we discover any trends?
I don’t have the answers, the question has enough value for now (for me at least). Feel free to share your thoughts though!