Since I had done some PHP benchmarking last week, I wondered about the performance implications of a technique that I use sometimes. In this article I take a quick look at some benchmarks to prove it’s worth.

PHP has a number of faults. One of them being that it has two different models for handling errors. In this post I show you how to catch errors as exceptions in existing code. Also, I do some benchmarks to see if this is even a good idea.

In Mac OS X you often interact with wireless networks via the top-menu, but you also have access via command-line. In this article I show how to use the command-line version of AirPort to get useful data.

A lengthy explanation of a one liner I use to detect when a service is not responding. Bash-fu included.

Quake 2 Source Code Review — Fabien Sanglard

Fabien Sanglard has written an amazing review on the insight that the game company id had when developing Quake 2 — not from the perspective of a gamer but down to the nuts and bolts of program design.