For reasons I don’t understand, this does not work (ReflectionException ‘Class Foo does not have a property named prop’):

class Foo
{
protected static $prop = ‘My value’;
}

$ref = new ReflectionClass(’Foo’);
$prop = $ref->getStaticPropertyValue(’prop’);

However, this does:

$ref = new ReflectionClass(’Foo’);
$props = $ref->getStaticProperties();
$prop = $props['prop'];

This does not work; PHP cannot dereference array return values:

$props = $ref->getStaticProperties()['prop'];

This does [...]

Alex Payne – who I sincerely hope does not become a regular foil – agonizes about Mac users using “old text editors.” Phil Hagelberg responds.
My 2¢: What I demand in an editor, in rough order of necessity, is:

Syntax highlighting for a wide variety of programming languages and file formats.
Tight integration with source code management, preferably [...]

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Better Buffer Naming
I found this code somwhere a while back, and threw [...]

I’m sure you couldn’t tell, but I’m not happy about Apple’s announcements today.
They’re Ugly
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I keep most of my media - music and photos - on a 250gb external WDC Passport drive. I usually bring it with me when I come in to the office, but I forgot it today. Whoops. So I set about figuring out how to access it remotely.
The Ingredients
iTunes needs two things to access shared [...]