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Web 2007/06/28 1 min read

Bloxorz Walkthrough

Latest time waster that made humanity's productivity plummet recently is the quite addictive Bloxorz, a puzzle game where you have to move a rectangular block through a maze into a hole. If you don't know it yet, and spare time is an issue for you, don't give it a try. For those who are stuck at a particular level, you'll…

WordPress 2007/06/26 1 min read

How To Be Delicious & Popular

When the day slowly finishes, when kids have gone to bed and the dishwasher is purring, is my usual end-of-day routine is about reading my mails, answering some, and have a look at del.icio.us popular links. And every few days, I just feel like I'm trapped in a space-time continuum distortion, and again comes that feeling of déjÃ -vu. Same 2¢…

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_DEC, expecting T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM (like here for instance) Seriously, what were PHP coders on, when they decided to implement this kind of error message?? For the record, it just means you're missing a :: somewhere.

2007/06/22 23h32 #

Software 2007/06/21 1 min read

Text Editors for Coders : Deathmatch Review

I have been using UltraEdit as my primary text editor over the last few years. I thought it had all the features I could expect from a text editor : tabbed interface, syntax highlighting for a number of languages, code block collapsing, regular expressions for searching and replacing, opening and closing brace matching, you name it. Then, recently, I got…

WordPress 2007/06/18 4 min read

WordPress, Duplicate Content, and Wrong SEO Plugins

I've seen recently a lot of plugins for WordPress aimed at taking care of the duplicate content issue in search engines. Don't get me wrong, those plugins are doing well what they were created for : adding a meta tag in some pages so that Googlebot and its friends don't index them. The problem is that doing such a thing…

This contact form uses a clock captcha, I thought it was a rather fun idea, and anyway a lot less annoying than those barely readable random strings so many sites use. Source code for this clock captcha can be found here (in German, but the PHP code is clean and easily understandable:)

2007/06/17 4h43 #

Images 2007/06/16 1 min read

Instant Polaroid Effect to Your Pictures With Javascript

This is pure awesomeness. Instant.js is an 8.5 kb javascript file (uncompressed, you can shrink it down to around 5 kb) which adds on the fly a "Polaroid Effect" to your pictures (white frame, light curl and a drop shadow). What I like about this is the unobstrusiveness (?) and the fact it does not use Flash. Too bad MSIE…

WordPress 2007/06/16 1 min read

Correctly Spelling WordPress

I came across this little rant about people not writing "WordPress" as it should be (one word, capitalized W and P). While a part of me thought "damn it, who cares", another part was slightly amused. So, this morning, I decided that I would take care of those obsessed people with a simple plugin, and I literally wrote Correctly Spell…

I've just come across Le HibOO (phonetically "the owl" in French), an online magazine about music, movies, clubbing and everything related to going out. I usually spot within seconds if a given site uses WordPress, but this time if it wasn't for the little WP logo in the lower right corner, I would never have found out. I must say I'm pretty impressed with their layout and how they're featuring elements. Very very nice job.

2007/06/15 23h44 #

Web 2007/06/14 2 min read

Best Site Ever to Find Flights

I'm currently scheduling my upcoming holidays (in 3 weeks !) and I'm in the middle of the once tedious process of finding the best flight. You know, something with a decent balance between a fair price and a minimal number of connexions and stops in airports you've never heard about before. And I've recently found about the best damn site…