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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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