Monthly Archives: April 2012

PHP, __FILE__, and eval()

Posted on April 29th, 2012 by Ryan

Came across an odd error last week. And by odd, I mean that Googling for the error message only turned up one page. One of my scripts was using eval as a way to semi-protect the code. Yeah, not a … Continue reading →

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Weekly Tweets for 2012-04-28

Posted on April 28th, 2012 by Ryan

Tip from family this morning – If your house is spotless it means it's empty. # Chocolate printer? Yes, please. http://t.co/fkvscwLX # NASA State of Flux – See what humans have done to the planet http://t.co/av3l6aKu #

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Roku remote for Android

Posted on April 25th, 2012 by Ryan

A few months ago we bought a Roku for our bedroom, mostly for Netflix. Love it, except for the remote. It’s really easy to lose. A quick search of the Android app store found a few 3rd party remotes that … Continue reading →

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Hits on wp-login.php from the Netherlands

Posted on April 23rd, 2012 by Ryan

Noticed something looking through AWStats this afternoon. Traffic was coming from 146.0.74.234, an IP address in the Netherlands owned by a Russian. Sure, there will always be a few random hits like that, but this one has hit the login script … Continue reading →

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Weekly Tweets for 2012-04-21

Posted on April 21st, 2012 by Ryan

The Internet: The Humble Origins of the HTML Blink Tag – @Gizmodo http://t.co/wiyhhzKW #

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Adding a label when placeholder isn’t supported by browser

Posted on April 21st, 2012 by Ryan

I’m sitting here working on a JavaScript heavy web app, and it has a few forms that are large enough that the placeholder attribute available in HTML 5 was the way to go. Only catch, not all browsers support placeholder … Continue reading →

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Sorting on version numbers with PHP

Posted on April 15th, 2012 by Ryan

Needed a quick way to sort on version numbers, and PHP has a usort function that makes it pretty easy. You’ll need an array to sort and call the usort function with a callback. Now the callback. We’re going to … Continue reading →

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Weekly Tweets for 2012-04-14

Posted on April 14th, 2012 by Ryan

Wow! Just changed the channel on my AirPort to something less crowded and estimated time to copy a 250mb file went from 75 minutes to 2. #

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Amazon Images plugin for WordPress

Posted on April 14th, 2012 by Ryan

Every now and then I like to link to Amazon products, along with an affiliate tag. Nothing spammy. But I figure if I’m going to link to something that they make money off of, I might as well try to … Continue reading →

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Chrome not saving cPanel password since upgrade

Posted on April 14th, 2012 by Ryan

Last week my server updated WHM / cPanel. Only new thing I’ve noticed is the shiny blue login screen, although I’m sure there’s a lot more under the hood. The problem though is that at the same time Chrome stopped … Continue reading →

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