Month: November 2005

I have to admit I don't know exactly what is Ruby. Everybody say it's damn cool and powerful, I guess I should at least have a look at this one day. Anyway, here is something cool : Try Ruby, an online interactive Ruby shell, introducing Ruby and how it works.

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Using $_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"] instead of $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] when it's empty : Mom be proud of me, my suggestion to the developpers is now part of WordPress code :) Now of course I would have to explain exactly to my Mom the impact of such a subtle tiny change :-Þ

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Pour un (petit) projet (inutile) à venir, j'avais besoin d'une liste de tous les mots français. J'ai trouvé notamment ceci et pour référence future voici donc une liste de 336 000 mots français (texte brut, 1 mot par ligne, 800 Ko)

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For a (small and useless) upcoming project I needed a list of all English words. I've found a few things (mostly here) and for future reference I've compiled a list of 354.000 English words (raw text, one entry per line, 1 MB)

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I'm currently testing here Akismet, Matt Mullenweg's centralized anti spam plugin. Let's see how things are going.

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Ajax trimed down to the core : AHAH, which stands for Asychronous HTML and HTTP. Despites its uber stupid name (google something with "ahah" ? ahah, gazillions of irrelevant stuff) it's a neat 2 functions javascript file that is all you need for most of your AJAX needs. (a little example)

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