Archive for May, 2006

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Posted On: 2006 / 05 / 31

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 :)[...] → Read more

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Posted On: 2006 / 05 / 30

Create your own complex functions in your wiki.[...] → Read more

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Posted On: 2006 / 05 / 30

Amazing R/C airplane demo. Amazing :)[...] → Read more

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Posted On: 2006 / 05 / 26

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 :)[...] → Read more

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Posted On: 2006 / 05 / 23

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.[...] → Read more

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Posted On: 2006 / 05 / 23

My buddy Tim Yang's website is back online. So is Problogger Clean, a WordPress theme we've worked together on.[...] → Read more

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Posted On: 2006 / 05 / 16

Basically, a plugin for WordPress creates a PHP function (called a filter or an action) which is triggered when a particular event (called a hook) occurs. When several filters are supposed to be triggered by the same hook, you can define their priority. When you're writing a plugin and you're facing unexpected behavior, it may […][...] → Read more

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Posted On: 2006 / 05 / 12

In my neverending amateur journey through the wonders of coding, here is something I've learnt in PHP today : how to conveniently store a set of flags into one value, with bitmask comparisons made easy thanks to PHP bitwise operators. Sounds greek to you ? Read on, it's this kind of things that are piece […][...] → Read more

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Posted On: 2006 / 05 / 11

PAPA9: I soooooo wish I could be there. Pinball has to be the thing that gave me the greatest excitement moments in my life :) I'll trade my wife for a Robowar.[...] → Read more

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Posted On: 2006 / 05 / 05

While playing a bit with Xdebug (a profiling tool for PHP), I've come across something I didn't know and that I frankly found a bit odd : how to use output buffering (PHP function ob_start()) to speed up some stuff. In a few words, just so you know if this is obvious noob stuff for […][...] → Read more