WordPress 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 déjà-vu. Same 2¢â€¦

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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.

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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:)

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Images 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…

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WordPress 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…

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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.

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Web 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…

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My Life 1 min read

Current Monomaniacal Musical Trend

I'm the kind of guy who listens to one and the same band over a period of time. Like, I find a CD I had forgotten for a long time, or a mismoved mp3 directory buried deep somewhere in my hard drive, and I go "hooooooo I love them" for a week. This time, and for the past 3 weeks…

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