What is a web developer? Recently I was involved in a discussion about the skills a web developer is expected to have and how interesting it has been to watch common bad practices (like table layout and SQL injection) continue to spread. So in the nature of Denis's What does a SQL Server developer need to know? post, I present the web developer breakdown.

This week we saw some strange symbols on our launchpad in one of the excerpts of a post. We did however not see this on the blog part of our site. So there must be a difference between the two. Here is how I solved it.

Today I was going through some code that we use for this site and found this. if( $this->disp_params['show_recently'] ) { echo $this->disp_params['item_start']; echo '<strong><a href="'.$Blog->get(…

The problem

for this blog we needed to make some adjustments to the code. One of them was the summary. Because we don't want our bloggers to write excerpts by themselves, we decided to do it for them (mainly tarwn).

To do this we take the original blogpost and cut it off at 600 characters. This works pretty well in php, since there are some functions for this. And this is what we have so far.