Archive for June, 2006

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Posted On: 2006 / 06 / 30

It's that time again. Time to take a breath, to switch computers off, to read tons of books, to go for a dive and for a walk. See you in a few weeks :)[...] → Read more

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Posted On: 2006 / 06 / 25

Firefox Myths. A bit of controversy can do no harm.[...] → Read more

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Posted On: 2006 / 06 / 23

36 Quai des Orfèvres, piraté sur Google Video. Un peu petit mais très utilisable d'ailleurs, je n'avais jamais remarqué qu'on pouvait aussi facilement naviguer dans la video sans attendre 1 heure qu'un buffer se remplisse.[...] → Read more

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Posted On: 2006 / 06 / 20

Arrrrrgh. There's two thing I hate when registering with a new website or service. First one is when they ask for logins longer than 3 letters. When I'd like to keep things simple and use the same 'Ozh' as a login across a thousand websites, I end up registering (and forgetting) gazillions of ozhy, ozhozh, […][...] → Read more

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Posted On: 2006 / 06 / 16

w00t ! A 3 figure Technorati rank was one of my meaningless goals for this year, and it just happened. Thanks everybody :)[...] → Read more

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Posted On: 2006 / 06 / 14

Situation : You want to insert some simple content into a DOM element. Since you happen to be a javascript n00b like me who always forget how to do it, and you don't want to use a 60 kb prototype.js for your 10 javascript lines project, you thought it would be useful to write down […][...] → Read more

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Posted On: 2006 / 06 / 12

Scary: 33% of UK & US big companies (1000+ employees) read their employees emails (source , a .pdf report)[...] → Read more

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Posted On: 2006 / 06 / 09

Girl on Toboggan: I have no clue why someone would use such an animated gif, but well, I spent like 3 minutes staring at it :)[...] → Read more

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Posted On: 2006 / 06 / 09

Did you know it ? PHP GD's imagecolorallocate() can only allocate 255 colors in a palette based image created by imagecreate() (no such limitation when you use function imagecreatetruecolors() by the way). This sounds pretty stupid as well as rather undocumented, but anyway, here is a new version of my GD Gradient Fill PHP class, […][...] → Read more

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Posted On: 2006 / 06 / 01

I thought, and had been told, that using constants instead of variables in PHP was mostly a matter of speed : at run time, the engine replaces every occurrence of a constant with its hard-coded value, making code presumably faster than using variables that must be evaluated each time they are encountered. Or something like […][...] → Read more