Web Development
Modrewrite and Short Urls - What you really want to know.
I recently opened up an old .htaccess and I was struck with the memory of how much it sucked trying to Google search for some real, working, answers on making short urls.
So here you go, my quick tip on what you really want to know about mod_rewrite.
Professional PHP
It’s important to remember what sets a professional PHP developer apart from the pack that floods your average help channel.
Too often I run into reviewing or helping a “professional” developer, and I can’t help but mutter “you’re doing it wrong…”
Screen Scraping made too easy
Recently I had some free time and I decided I wanted to automate some common tasks of mine. And let me tell you honestly, I hate having to do screen scraping. It’s an annoying, tedious task. Making regex for this, and for that, and then to find out my hours were wasted as that regex won’t work on another site.
That’s a thing of the past.
Breathalyzer for your Gmail
Personally, I think this is a pretty neat little gizmo. Basically, in a blog post at: http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2008/10/new-in-labs-stop-sending-mail-you-later.html
All you have to do is answer a few simple math problems, and boom, off it goes. I think the idea here is it gives you a second chance to reconsider your email. And, if you’re too drunk to think of an answer, perhaps you should wait till the next day to send it.
I think it’s neat, and of course, you can turn it on and off, so if anyone is complaining about that, well, they’re just silly.
Work that DOM
Just real quick, this came up in #javascript the other day. Working with the DOM, appending new elements.
PHP and MySQL Tip #1 - Error Checks
I’d like to share with all of you some PHP Tips.
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