This is a simple print_r() but I finally got fed up of loosing my quick debug statements and so added the line name and file number from a stack trace (substitute var_export() to taste).

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function pr($str){
 
        echo('<pre>');
        print_r($str);
        echo('</pre >');
 
        $d = debug_backtrace();
 
        echo $d[0]['file'] . '<br />Line: <b>' . $d[0]['line'] . '</b>';
        echo '<hr />';
 
}

Anyway they’ve just written an article about beer made from weird stuff like stinging nettles. I’ve had omlettes made from nettles and also nettle and wild garlic soup – but never nettle beer. Food for free is one thing (great) – beer for free must be even better.

I think they could be onto a winner. Now that summer is coming and my various sheds have risen above freezing, I might give this home brewing lark a go. There are certainly plenty of nettles round me… and I bet I could do something good with dandelions.

Cheers!

At home we’ve come up with a new strategy. In our bathroom we have a very hungry crocodile, but fortunately he doesn’t like to eat children with clean teeth.

It fills a gap for just that a bit of notepad / jotting pad / scratch pad that has bugged me for a while – I have been using either notepad++ or text wrangler (depending on whether I’m on PC or Mac) – neither of which was quite what I wanted.

My only irritation is that I don’t think I can transparently share my jottings across platforms.

Time will tell.

I am saddened gutted to find that it has already been coined.

Lusciously plump, can be used sarcastically as a back handed endearment.
she is very plumptious

(urban dictionary)

I’ve been trying to process a text document with a search / replace, but the regular expression support seems a bit limited (see wiki)

To find two or more spaces I used the following expression:


([\s]+)([\s]+)


Note to self: must do better.

Anyway other people we know did loads of research (like Which) and apparently the best vacuum cleaners you can get at the moment are Miele vacuum cleaners. So a few people we know bought them – and we’ve just got one…

And it really is amazing. It is awesome. It actually sucks the carpet up of the floor creating a kind of carpet wave as you hoover the room. Our house is considerably cleaner now than it was a few days ago.

Miele S 5211 Vacuum Cleaner (on Amazon)

I’ve been meaning to announce the launch of my company Symbiotica Media Ltd – based in Devon near the city of Exeter. As you will be unsurprised to learn it is a web development company – so if you need beautiful, functional websites and applications that are a joy to use, look no further.

I have been so busy that our main website still isn’t ready, but we now have a delicious looking blog up and running.

If you read flipflops.org regularly, you will rightly guess that we will be working with CakePHP quite a lot, but current projects also make extensive use of WordPress and Tarzan AWS. I’m also built and am using a great a little, lightweight XML template engine based on the Page Controller pattern, and hopefully more Django soon.