At work, we play a little game called “Tech Team Quiz”.
Whenever we stumble across a bit of code that behaves oddly, or gives unexpected results that turn out to be documented clearly in the manual, or just contain some devious little error that took a long time to hunt down, we post it as a challenge for the others. For the purpose of this blog, I’ve dubbed them “gotchas”.
Read carefully – sometimes it’s bad syntax, sometimes it’s behavior that changed between recent versions (for PHP, you can assume version 5.0; for MySQL, it could be anything from 4.0 to 5.1).
