Samwho has great interactive articles, his recent article on memory allocation and slightly older article on load balancing are great for beginners just starting to explore those areas.

If anyone is interested in other interactive articles that aren’t necessarily about coding, Ciechanowski’s are the best. He hand-codes each interactive example and each article is so full that they could easily be entire chapters of textbooks.

The CommunityFactory is coming next week, and the CommunityFactoryFactory the following week :p

This one right here: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/consistent_function_names

Right now the only reason I ever use php is because I have to.

This one simple change would bring me half way to wanting to use php for fun (the other half would be making debugging easier).

Mainly because you’ve got to setup PHP to be debuggable in the first place.

And setting up PHP is already a hassle. When a dev has to set up php in about 5 separate ways just to figure out which one is actually debuggable, then PHP has a problem.

What SE QLD needs:

• Less suburban sprawl
• More trams and bus ways
• More walkable cities
• Mixed zoning with each new development voted on by the people who live in the area. The company that puts forward the best proposal for residents gets the contract. (e.g. Luxury high rise = no, High rise with bakery, cafe, fruit & veg, grocers on bottom floor, and rentable office space on second floor = yes)

It depends what you need your configuration file to be:

Need a well defined easy to understand concrete configuration file?

• Use .toml. It was made to be both human and computer friendly while taking special attention to avoid the pitfalls commonly found in other configuration files by explicitly stating expected types around commonly confused areas.

Need a simple to implement configuration file?

• Use .json. It’s famous for being so simple it’s creator “discoverer” could define it on a business card.

Need an abstract configuration file for more complicated setups?

• Use .ncl. Nickle allows you to define functions so that you can generate/compute the correct configuration by changing a few variables/flags.

Also, you can buy Tic Tacs from any newsagent or gas station.

I’m curious why people would downvote a request for port forwarding?

I can barely see it, they should have made more.

Still… It’s a journey begins with a thousand steps, and this is one in the right direction.

Honestly, the best thing to do is just to stream your gameplay to your own private youtube or twitch.

Then when the bug happens you can “clip” out the video and send them a link in the bug report.