When I’ve got a nasty case of insomnia, such as the current time, I like to browse the web and work on small projects – nothing to get me too engrossed, but still, enough to be useful, and have something functional by when I finally slumber.
As previously mentioned, I usually give David Grant’s Q...
I’ve added a bit more recently to Rollator’s RSS backend.
Due to both request, and my tiring of seemingly arbitrary size lengths, I’ve enabled the user to submit exactly how much they wish to see. The RSS feeds now take three variables; num, length, and fullarticle.
If you query with http://w...
There exists a very, very simple solution, it’s called the Luhn mod 10 algorithm.
Assuming the number is: 4000 1234 5678 9013
Chop off the last digit (400012345678901), then multiply each second digit, starting from the right, by 2:
(400012345678901) [2, 18, 14, 10, 6, 2, 0, 8], add together...
I’m interested in SOAP, and have been hacking away with PHP long enough – I might as well make SOME use out of it. I started toying around with Amazon’s Developer API, then go to look at the documentation:
1:48 [macoontosh] /Users/shawn/Sites/testing/AmazonWebServices/PHPSample%file PHPSample.doc...
First and foremost, I’ve updated the drawing engine on my doodleboard to PaintBBS 2.22_6, which is current.
Secondly, I’ve retooled one of my first little toys, a simple WHOIS query tool in PHP. It now understands both InterNic and ARIN; and is customizable via either POST, or GET requests, so...
Since many people who have used the Mac are fairly new to UNIX, they’re rather nonplussed that many things “don’t work” for the unix underpinings as they do for the GUI.
Many of them are used to being able to cut and paste with Command-C, Command-P, but what if you’re not in insert mode?
The fol...