Fix Firefox's Google Search language setting
posted: May 11th, 2006 · by: Sven
Short note to myself. In case you’ve ever have to reinstall Firefox, immediately go and kill the line
19 <input name="meta" value="lr%3Dlang_de">
in <appdir>/firefox/searchplugins.
Do not wait. Just do it now. Quick!
I’ve been really annoyed by firefox’s internal search plugin which - I can’t remember since when - send me to www.google.de kindly “tailoring” the search results for German users. That means: practically ommitting every interesting page on the web.
As I’m usually looking for technical things this behaviour actually results in the opposite of what Google wants to achive - I usually got totally useless results for almost everything.
Access level constrains in php5 really suck
posted: January 4th, 2006 · by: Sven
I can’t understand why I’m being forced to keep the access level of a class’s method when I extend it.
class SomeFactory extends PEAR_Delegator {
protected function __construct() {
}
public static function instance() {
}
}
... would make perfectly sense IVHMO. But it throws …
"Fatal error: Access level to ActivePdo_Relation::__construct() must be public (as in class PEAR_Delegator)"
What’s the reasoning behind this?
That’s because I’m “doing something terribly wrong”, is it? Not the “php way”? Boy, this sucks.