Remember the great Iron Maiden song Hooks in you (from their No prayer for the dying album)? Though it’s indeed a significant piece of metal history in itself, i’m not going to write about it now (there’s a lot behind those links anyway). If not that, then what kind of hooks? I just realised today that using the same method for plugins as WordPress, hooks (or event triggers) to be exact, is not that much of a bad idea. It’s the fastest way i think. Even if i’m doing OOP, and they’re just partly that. I’ll have the core objects (database, posts, output, and one with everything else such as string modifiers, date and time, and basic authentication — and most importantly plugin management — since it’s so “huge”, i’m thinking about splitting it up or putting most of its stuff into modules or plugins) and the dynamically loaded plugin library. Here and there in the code, there’ll be trigger points, where i trigger a registered event (if it’s unregistered, a notice level error will occur), the plugin handler checks which plugins’ which functions are registered for that event, and executes them. It gave me a minute’s trouble to figure out how to pass variables, because they need to be passed by reference. But there are cases, when no parameter’s required, and then it’d raise an error, because parameters passed by reference cannot be left empty. I think. ‘Tis so fun, i finally get it on the way. This part i really enjoy.

I’m getting very trendy, so i’m taking part in this CSS Naked Day craze. This means that for this one day, no design will be applied to the blog at all (i’m way too lazy to edit all the other pages too). What’s the fun in that? Very good question. Claimed to call the attention of the designers, the admins and in general everyone to the impotance of semantic, valid markup, well designed code-hierarchy, which are very important in case someone’s using a visually less capable browser (eg. from a mobile phone, or uses lynx or one of it’s relatives, or by chance an aural browser).

Challange: write the shortest code to display the Fibonacci numbers up to 5000.

I’ve made a code that displays them, though the pairs (1-1, 2-3, 5-8) are all backwards (1-1, 3-2, 8-5). I don’t know how to solve it (it’s 55 byte by the way).

I’ve seen this interesting challange on Code Golf, and decided to compete. I’m losing miserably. I’ve managed to go as down as 65 byte in PHP, but i realised it won’t work, because i get the vars ($n, $k) from stdin. First, i don’t know how to work with stdin, second, that’d add up a nice bunch of bytes for my code (which is right now as follows)… Could someone tell me how stdin works and how could i make a 63 byte long code with that included?