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PHP's strrev is not safe to use on utf-8 strings because it reverses a string one byte at a time. So if a character consists of multiple bytes it cannot be preserved as an entity in the reversed result.

Multibyte Performance Php Utf8

If something weird is happening, you want to know everything that's going on on a server, as fast as possible.

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This article aims to provide a compact tutorial for setting up an Octopress blog from scratch on OSX.

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"Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability."

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This article in 50 words: I used to prefer spaces vs tabs, now I don't care so much, think it's more important that you can easily switch on a per-project basis. Have some thoughts on how conventions should be established,...

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