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learning javascript oddities from wikipedia: using !! for normalization and the return from || and &&. nice »« 00:37 08/02/09 | permalink | javascript programming code boolean

kellan points out this interesting old TPJ article on problems with localization and gettext. the solution isn't really any good, but the problem is real »« 12:15 04/04/08 | permalink | perl localization code

a new version of the php rfc (2)822 parser is now out, fixing a nasty bug that allowed extra periods almost anywhere in the address. oops »« 14:52 28/11/07 | permalink | code

a nice summary of some js oddities that can be used for building exploits against various filtering systems »« 11:22 27/09/07 | permalink | js code

ohloh has some interesting views of open source projects - the committer sparklines are especially nice. like a much more polished version of a tool we use internally. »« 12:29 26/08/07 | permalink | code stats web

bookmarking for a later - fb code leaks »« 15:06 14/08/07 | permalink | code web php facebook

mozilla are talking about some nice changes coming up in JavaScript 1.7 (starting with the next beta of ff2) »« 16:27 19/06/06 | permalink | mozilla code

get it while it's hot - the perl color ascii art library »« 13:43 26/03/06 | permalink | perl code images asciiart

and i've also updated lib_filter to handle single quoted attributes. »« 17:01 14/10/05 | permalink | code html lib_filter

i've coded an experimental version of an RFC 2822 address parser to update the RFC 822 version. »« 17:00 14/10/05 | permalink | code email rfc822 rfc2822

a c boardgame. sooooo awesome »« 17:37 23/09/05 | permalink | programming code c boadgames games

rate my code is awesome - thanks to salti for finding that »« 20:47 08/08/05 | permalink | code coding hotornot

and here's that code in php for your enjoyment. »« 22:11 21/03/05 | permalink | php code easter

so easter is in march this year. the 'ecclesiastical' rules for calculating the date of easter sunday are: 1, easter falls on the first sunday following the first ecclesiastical full moon that occurs on or after the day of the vernal equinox. 2, this particular ecclesiastical full moon is the 14th day of a tabular lunation (new moon). 3, the vernal equinox is fixed as march 21. this page has more information and a code sample for calculating the date for any given year.  »« 21:56 21/03/05 | permalink | easter holidays dates code

a new release of lib_filter (only 2 months late) to avoid the br tag being removed when the b tag should be (bad regexp - no cookie for you!). »« 18:23 01/02/05 | permalink | php lib_filter code

my newest solver for roadblocks can handle one-ways and teleporters. seems to be able to cope with advanced levels easily. »« 14:51 09/11/04 | permalink | code games

roadblocks is pretty fun, but trying to build a solver is more fun. patches to support one ways and teleporters are welcomed (you'd need to extend the find_stop_*) functions to return an x,y pair for the teleporters. one ways are easy - just add to the blocks list for each direction). :) »« 15:19 05/11/04 | permalink | code games

Inline::Parrot is now in CPAN. i suspect i'll be installing that later today. »« 09:27 14/10/04 | permalink | parrot code

a nice faq answer about portable single character io. in a nutshell: no. of course, parrot will solve this for us by making everything seem portable. »« 10:27 13/10/04 | permalink | code parrot

the poignant guide to ruby now has 5 completed chapters (with the sixth slated to come this christmas). it's really really good - both funny and informative. »« 00:58 13/10/04 | permalink | ruby code

a question i've had before: "the x argument is a unix timestamp, but in what timezone? UTC?". unix timestamps are always UTC, since that's part of their definition. »« 00:53 13/10/04 | permalink | code

the newly launched php wtf seem to be struggling for content - maybe there's not as many bad php programmers as one would imagine, or (as i find that hard to believe), the people running the site are finding bad code tough to spot ;) »« 22:37 11/10/04 | permalink | php code

the flickr mt plugin is pretty awesome, using not only Flickr::API, but also my XML::Parser::Lite::Tree and XPath modules. code resuse strikes again! »« 18:50 11/10/04 | permalink | perl code

sean o'rourke points out a nice way to get a perl shell. now why isn't there a Perl::Shell module to do the same thing without all the line noise? a CPAN-esque "perl -MPerl -e shell" would be nice. »« 09:56 27/09/04 | permalink | perl code

a french compsci teacher is using parrot on their vm course. »« 10:17 24/09/04 | permalink | parrot code

a vaguely interesting perl5 oo syntax filter module (though no standard build/install process, which sucks ass). i prefer luke's Class::Closure. »« 18:13 20/09/04 | permalink | perl code

at least someone took my comments about PEAR's failing to heart. »« 17:24 13/09/04 | permalink | code php

scary goings on in th p6i world - jospeh ryan explains how to inline prolog in perl 6 using macros and the cross-language eval statement. »« 10:05 09/09/04 | permalink | perl code

very useful - a list of which c functions are required in each standard (c89, c99, posix, etc). »« 10:46 08/09/04 | permalink | code

oooh. yoz has released a cool hack for delicious - tag auto-completion. »« 19:55 06/09/04 | permalink | code

a new perl module: XML::Parser::Lite::Tree::XPath . my first foray into xpath backends. docs are here. should reach cpan later today. »« 17:02 01/09/04 | permalink | code perl xml

natural docs looks really good - like javadoc but much richer and more forgiving. also makes for very readable unprocessed docs. nice. »« 11:11 24/08/04 | permalink | code

steve fink is documenting his quest to write a regexp compiler in parrot. the three days logged so far make for interesting reading. »« 13:58 20/08/04 | permalink | perl code parrot

was reminded of channel9 again today. looks like pep designed it, but full of geniuses. from microsoft. no, seriously. »« 14:57 19/08/04 | permalink | code

there's a discussion happening on p61 at the moment about multimethod dispatch on return continuations. this sounds like pretty crazy at first, with fungeoid implications, but could lead to some very nice debugging hook oppertunities. »« 13:26 18/08/04 | permalink | code perl

a nice collection of efficiency quotes. two of those adorn the walls in the office. »« 12:11 18/08/04 | permalink | code

what. the. fuck. i did a "pear upgrade-all" and it first failed because of dependencies. fair enough - stupid that it didn;t automatically install the dependency, but forgivable. but then once finished, pear was broken because it used php 4.2.0 only features. how fucking stupid is that? the people in charge or pear are braindead idiots. »« 17:26 11/08/04 | permalink | code php

bookmarked for later - the rex parser with a javascript version of the regexp. »« 11:19 11/08/04 | permalink | code

six apart is now taking signups for MT 3.1 beta testing. might be interesting. might not. »« 21:11 09/08/04 | permalink | code

bookmarked for later - itunes sdks for osx and windows »« 16:17 09/08/04 | permalink | code

a world of sql-related headaches today. while searching for an answer, i came across this nice explanation of joins in mysql - detailing multiple left joins, which is handy stuff. »« 16:39 03/08/04 | permalink | code

span looks to be the first fully featured language built on the parrot vm, and so marks a big milestone in parrot's evolution. leo's python work is coming along too, with an AST generator posted this weekend. parrot is getting closer to the elusive 1.0 »« 22:51 02/08/04 | permalink | code parrot

a live-journal-type teen-angst-girl started a use perl; jounral, thinking it was a general journal site. funny stuff »« 15:57 30/07/04 | permalink | code

leonard linked to a nice short guide to lex and yacc. i'm working on a new language right now, using perl and P:RD. maybe lex and yacc in the future if i get adventurous. »« 21:35 29/07/04 | permalink | code

flashkit is a constant source of despair for me. when i come up against some dumb problem in flash, i sometimes eventually post in the flashkit forums. to date, i've *always* recieved an entirely unhelpful solution, and usually by the same user, which doesn't fit the question at all and assumes i'm making a really basic mistake. forums with actually knowlegeable people (like ubbdev in the days of old) are a *huge* asset for a product's company. »« 19:01 28/07/04 | permalink | code flash

further investigation of the if-modified-since problem with apache and php appears to show that it's a bug in apache 2 and the php filter plugin. stupid stupid stupid. it can be worked around with an apache directive, although that also stops php from recieving the i-m-s header, so you can't handle the 304 response manually. »« 16:44 26/07/04 | permalink | code web

the wikipedia page on surreal numebrs makes for interesting reading. »« 14:32 26/07/04 | permalink | code math

six-apart announce the winners of their mt-plugin contest. they should at least by slightly fucking embarrassed of the winner, since it basically patches a big problem in mt. i didn't win any of the six prizes, though all three of my plugins were in the shortlist of thirty (i know some judges ;), so 10% of the shortlist was my work. not so bad. »« 01:53 23/07/04 | permalink | code

hammond's webkit2png is *really* fucking awesome. time to fire up the ibook and get grabbing. »« 19:24 22/07/04 | permalink | code

webpac is incorporating my google search-term highlighter in their distribution. i don't quite understand what it does (very text-heavy site) but they seem nice enough. yay for open source and code reuse. »« 16:18 21/07/04 | permalink | code

stupid manila, part 2. in addition to not supporting the full blogger or metaweblog apis, it looks like they have escaping issues with the methods they do support :( »« 16:15 19/07/04 | permalink | code weblogs

urgh. stupid userland/winer/manila. turns out that manila doesn't support the revised metaweblogapi spec, which is hard to find so no big suprise. but, err, userland created the spec. they also don't fully support the blogger v1 api. a developer tells me that you need to send the full url of your blog as the blog id to the *.newPost method - is this a userland construct or is it standard practice? crazy. »« 15:18 19/07/04 | permalink | weblogs code

the ever-lucid MJD has some advice for newbies in this short video. »« 13:47 19/07/04 | permalink | code perl

stupid stupid pear doesn't have an atom parser yet (and wont for ages - their standards and approval process greatly discourage people writing for it - there's no way i ever will :/) so i wrote one with the same interface as XML::RSS, for drop in replacement (it's going to be used in an upcoming aggregator project). »« 22:17 14/07/04 | permalink | code php atom rss

check out my rtf tokeniser in perl which i wrote many years ago and just remembered about (although we now have RTF::Tokenizer on cpan which didn't exist when i wrote my tokenizer). »« 22:15 14/07/04 | permalink | code php rtf

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