Scary: 33% of UK & US big companies (1000+ employees) read their employees emails (source , a .pdf report)
Year: 2006
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 :)
PHP GD : imagecolorallocate() Limitation
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, which now produces correct colors…
PHP : Variables vs Constants
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 this. Wondering how big or…
google adsense sparklines: a really nice hack of my own Adsense to RSS Feed script. I love it when people make completely unexpected usage of stuff I write :)
How to Add a Custom Function to MediaWiki
Create your own complex functions in your wiki.
Amazing R/C airplane demo. Amazing :)
Heh, funny. I made a feature request for Filezilla (an FTP client) on 2003-11-29 at 13:26, and I've had a mail today telling that it's finally been implemented in latest release (2.2.24) I guess you never wait too much :)
PHP5 Benchmarks: for vs while, count vs sizeof, md5 vs sha1 and other speed comparisons like these for those who really need an extra millisecond of optimisation. I like this.
My buddy Tim Yang's website is back online. So is Problogger Clean, a WordPress theme we've worked together on.