Web Developer Zone
Web Developer Zone is a code first section devoted to tools and techniques used in web development. Thematically, the main focus here is on PHP, Linux, BASH, JavaScript and a little bit of MySQL and Python.
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Sorting objects by their property in PHP
10 Dec 2016 13:10:14
A few words on a basic technique of sorting objects by their common property in PHP programming language.
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06 Sep 2017 23:04:22
Mapping numeric score to feedback message in PHP
Article on mapping a numeric or percent score to a feedback message with code examples in PHP programming language.

03 Aug 2020 00:39:31
Piping JSON object to PHP script
Article about how to pass data from a shell to a PHP script with a pipe on the command line or directly using PHP system function.

21 Dec 2016 11:07:56
Genericons unicode values
List of Unicode code points for Genericons vector icon set and a BASH script that finds the codes.

18 Jul 2020 00:39:07
Transforming range of variable to 0 to 1 and custom ranges
Learn how to transform variable's range to [0,1] or a custom range.

14 Jul 2020 11:08:06
Recursively updating deeply nested arrays in PHP
An article on recursively updating deeply nested arrays using array_walk_recursive and custom nested array traversal function in PHP.

28 Jan 2022 12:34:11
Recent

04 Feb 2020 20:33:40
Number of primes less than N
In this article I look at how to find all prime numbers below a certain positive number N, as well as their sum. We do not know how primes are distributed. There is no function, which reliably finds all primes less then a large natural number. However, we do known an algorithm, ...

29 Jun 2018 19:38:09
Symmetric and asymmetric - key encryption with gpg and gpg-zip
We have stored more and more data, sometimes logins, passwords and whole databases, by popular cloud storage services today. On one hand, keeping files with them seems like a good idea. You get access to your files on demand, on any device you connect to service with, from ...

21 Jun 2018 18:53:34
Builidng and compressing archives with tar and process substitution
To large degree this article is a result of my observations on people's struggles related to compressing files, possibly also directories, with tar command line utility efficiently and safely. Most of the time using tar on its own causes no difficulty. Problems crop up ...

27 Apr 2018 14:14:09
Dissecting Mister Spy Bot website hack
If you are a website admin or owner you probably scan your HTTP server's logs in search of interesting, or perhaps dangerous, entries from time to time. When doing so, you might have come across a GET or POST HTTP request (or some its variation) which looks like the one ...
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