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Looking for someone? huh? Well, look no further, this script is designed to keep log of people quiting, parting, being kicked out of and changing their nick… It also tells you if they are still on IRC, on a different channel or such, its basically the easiest way to keep track of people. It can now also tell you when someone last spoke.
After reading an article some time ago entitled “40 Tips for optimizing your php Code” (and some others that are suspiciously similar), I decided to redo it, but properly this time with more accurate tips, providing references and citations for each and every one.
The result is this list of over 50 PHP optimisation tips…
Update: The list is more like 50+ PHP tips and tricks these days.
Enjoy!
It’s about this time that geeks start to think about things to do over the summer.
Geek in the Park is a day-long event for geeks (mainly web developers) to have a get together.
The event is going to be held in Jephson Gardens, Leamington Spa, Warwickshire.
The Picnic during the day, followed by The Discussion in the evening. The event starts on Saturday at noon and everything should wrap up by around 11pm.
…and yes, I will be attending.
So, come see me at Geek in the Park on Saturday 9th August 2008. Put it in your diary!
I aim to get there around mid-day, but have been known to be fashionably late.
You’ll find me listed on both the Upcoming and Facebook event pages.
Don’t forget to visit the Geek in the Park website and add your email address to the announcements.
For those of you on IRC, you can visit #webdev @ EFnet to discuss it further.
See you there!
I wanted to prepare my wordpress powered blog for an influx of traffic from social media sites such as digg.com, in case one of my articles got big, so I decided to investigate what could be done to optimise the performance my blog.
This is the result…
Windows XP often does some really annoying things, such as automatically customising a folder, changing it’s kind into “music”, when it detects that the folder contains music files.
Although for some people this might be useful, for me it’s not. Often I’ll want to sort the files in a folder by different fields, NOT the ones that music folders have.
Easy, I thought, it’s just a case of changing the folder customisation kind back to “Document”. Wrong.
I decided I was finally fed up with my Epson Stylus C46 bubble jet printer, and decided that I don’t really need it anyway.
Everything I print only needs to be in black and white, and anything else I can print onto the HP Photosmart 3110 All-in-one that I have located in the room on another machine.
So now it’s time to get serious, I decided to use a Samsung ML-4500 laser jet I had lying around spare.
Only, how do you install this thing on Windows XP?
So you just downloaded an entire album, and it's in .wma (windows media audio) format, and you, of course, like any normal person want it in the .mp3 format.
What do you do?
A couple of weeks ago I noticed that the alerts for text messages has mysteriously gone missing and completely stopped working.
Recently Matt Cutts posted an article on his blog about Recording an IRC channel on Linux/Ubuntu.
However, as you can see his article was all about using the irssi IRC client on Linux/Ubuntu.
I decided that some people may wish to know how to do it on Windows.
Here’s how…
Today I received a phone call from one of my clients who said that they had a BT engineer with them. OK. I thought, what’s going on here…
They then proceeded to ask me “what do we rank for on google?”, my response was “your company name, unless you request otherwise”.
They then went on to mentioned that “the man from BT” can get us listed “at the top” of the search engine for “our keywords”.
Naturally I reply to this with a sigh, but how they can they go around making such statements? It’s so unethical to make these kind of claims.
After reading their marketing bumph, I found out what they meant by “at the top”. What they are offering is the ability to list as the “sponsored links” in search engines, which appear “at the top”.
They requested my email address to send me “further details” through, below is the marketing email I was sent. I couldn’t wait to pull it apart.
This isn’t at all a review of the BT Web Clicks service, in fact i’ve not used it, it’s simply an analysis of their marketing blurb.