Scott Yang's Playground

Jon Mark Allen added some interesting features into Scripturizer for WordPress, and released it as Scripturizer 1.2. So I took what he has done, borrowed the idea of Bible translation customisation, added a bit of code of my own, and released it as Scripturizer for WordPress 1.3. Download Scripturizer 1.3 A list of changes: Feature: [...]

Here is an updated version of my PHP Syntax Hilighting script (standalone or as WordPress plugin). It fixes the issue whether <font /> tag is used by enscript which renders the whole page non-XHTML compliant. A preg_replace() call replaces them with standard compliant <span style=”…” /> XHTML code. Download syntax_hilight-1.2.php

Sean Hull wrote an comparison of the new PHP5 verses ASP.Net. It feels just like touching the surface, and did not address many issues, especially when PHP5 is still a glorified template language, whereas ASP.Net includes a whole application server suite.

I have heard quite a lot of good reports on how Turck MMCache for PHP can improve performance. Performance does not just matter the high traffic sites, but with sites hosted on over-saturated shared hosting, or on a wimpy box like mine, it is still a good thing to have PHP performing well, especially considering [...]

In response to MeanDean’s request, I have migrated my original PHP scripturizer to the same level of functionality as his latest Perl version, as well as adding WordPress plugin capability to add Bible reference links through content filter.

One thing that I dislike about WordPress is its default wptexturize filter that messes up with my HTML code. The default behaviour makes code listing very difficult to read, as it attempts to add paragraph tags to <pre /> tags. Here is one of my first attempts in WordPress plugin coding to rectify this issue.

They said programming is an art, and syntax highlighting of source code really makes them look artistic.

Having enough breath of God? Err. I mean, we want more scriptures!! First of all, we see from 2 Peter 1:20-21 that all scriptures are having dual authorship – it is written by men at various time in various places. But at the same time they are all inspired by God. As it is written [...]