Archive For January, 2006
Are you wondering what Ray D’Arcy looks like with a beard and after a shave, with a moustache? Take a look. Sorry Ray, doesn’t suit you at all!
Andrew van der Stock’s criticism of PHP’s security model. What security? Global request arrays go some way to making applications safer but there are obscure functions and settings which can trip up developers. (via) PHP Optimization Tricks from Ilia Alshanetsky has one gem I didn’t know about – the ctype extension. It’s somewhat limited but [...]
Surfers have ridden and beaten the huge waves off the Cliffs of Moher in Co. Clare. A film is being made about the event, and a preview is available because of the interest in it! I wonder was Peter anywhere nearby with his camera?
Rich Ziade has listed a number of ways to use RSS more creatively than just reading news headlines from blogs. One of my favourite non-blog rss feeds is the Flickr Interestingness photo feed which isn’t listed, but I’ll have to look up the comics feed mentioned above!
When I bought me PC last year it came with a small little webcam which never worked for me until today when I plugged it in and Ubuntu Linux detected it using the Spca5xx driver. This is what the kernel reported: “USB SPCA5XX camera found. SONIX sn9c102 + Pas106″ Easycam made it easy enough to [...]
Ryan found the TVArk! Ryan has linked directly to a few ads such as the old Kia Ora one from 1984 and remember the Trebor Soft Mints one set in a strange and soft world? That’s from 1987! Lots more on the TVArk site itself, Yes Ryan, I’ll have to have a good look around [...]
A cancer causing chemical has been found in coffee. Acrylamide is the drug in question and “only chips and crisps are responsible for greater quantities on average.” (That’s fries and chips to US readers) Yet again, I’m glad I gave up coffee! Unfortunately the chemical is produced during cooking, “particularly high-temperature processes such as frying [...]
This morning on Ian Dempsey’s show a representative from the Jack and Jill Childrens Foundation was on asking for mobile phones to be sent to them. This is a really good cause, the Foundation helps “babies born with severe developmental delay. Usually that means that they can not function at birth and require 24 hour [...]
Justin has coded a c64ize script which will convert an image in modern formats such as jpeg or gif into what an 8 bit Commodore 64 would display! Ah yes, you had to be there…
2 links for the developers around here: Quick Lookup is an online dictionary of PHP,MySQL, Javascript and CSS commands and keywords. As of this moment, “55% ish of MySQL is done, JS is NOT finished yet” but it’s still useful if you haven’t got the PHP manual handy. Regular Expression Checker – regexes are an [...]
