Blog of Vladimir Garvardt
Blog of Vladimir Garvardt
on Programming, Life, the Universe and Everything
Hello, I am Vladimir Garvardt
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rKlotz - yet another blog engine in go
Finally, I made it! Started the project in July, worked on it for several days, then suspended it, returned several days ago, gave it new name, spent several evenings and now – it’s production-ready. About a half of year ago I started to lo... [Read more]
About Atlassian Confluence and hate
21 Feb 2014 on atlassian confluence tools wysiwyg hell
Atlassian manager who decided to remove markup mode from Confluence editor and leave only WYSIWYG mode hates programmers. That’s for sure! [Read more]
Some thoughts on language-specific ways of implementing things
1 Feb 2014 on php general thoughts python programming languages
There are lots of programming languages - some of them more popular, some less. But as I can see it - all languages were initially created to solve one problem (or set of problems) that existing languages solve it the wrong/complicated/any-other-word w... [Read more]
Do it carefully
Accidental rm -rf on wrong directory turns common evening into interesting one, shi… PS: everything could be much worse =) [Read more]
Favorite poem
Now I do have favorite poem and it is in German. I’m learning German for about half of the year - very interesting language. And tonight I discovered Goethe poetry and a poem that I like very much. It is Erlkönig by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: We... [Read more]
FireFox and input type="date"
It was not surprise for me that latest stable, 11 for now, MS Internet Explorer does not support date input type. But I was shocked by the fact that the latest stable FireFox version, 25 for now, does not support it too! Actually, the only browser that... [Read more]
Interesting PHP DateTime::createFromFormat() behavior
In PHP DateTime::createFromFormat() method has one non-obvious behavior that I recendtly discovered. The best way to show is give quick and simple example. $dateStr = '2013-11-07T16:48:98+0400'; $dt = DateTime::createFromFormat(DateTime::ISO8601, $date... [Read more]
Django HTTP query array
HTTP queries in application/x-www-form-urlencoded encoding type is simple key/value list and in the most cases this is enough. But sometimes it’s required to send more complex data types. Lists are supported in Django HttpRequest out of the box, ... [Read more]
Extending PHP array
24 Oct 2013 on php array OOP ArrayObject
Array is one of the most powerful and most used type in PHP. Actually this type combines functinality that other programming languages includes in different types. These types are linear array - list type in terms of Python or List interface in terms o... [Read more]
Hello Blog!
22 Oct 2013 on hello world
Second try on personal blog. This time I’ll post more than two articles =) [Read more]
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