January 2009
2 posts
PHP MySQL and encoding
So here we go with new site design and all, and one thing that drives me up the wall is the encoding mess.
I have a hungarian lanuage blog, sitting in MySQL using utf-8 encoding. Wordpress reads it perfectly, in MySQL every special character shows up correctly.
Then I try to read it with PHP - page encoding: utf-8 -, and it says the text read is ISO 8859-1, and it shows a garbled mess with every...
Book recommendations
In the last two months I have read some new books, and I would like to recommend some of them. Just in case you don’t know what to read.
Eric Evans: Domain Driven Design A sensible approach to software and system design, with the goal to keep the model and the code in synch. I haven’t finished it yet, but so far it’s a good book.
Donald A. Norman: Emotional Design On the three...