Archive for April, 2007

Adobe are rubbish

http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=333643
nuff said!

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//———————————————–

// Function to force download of a file

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public function download($file_name, $file_path, $mime_type)

{

        header(‘Content-Description: File Transfer’);

        header(‘Content-Type: ‘.$mime_type);

        header(‘Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="’.$file_name.‘";’);

        header("Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0");

        header(‘Content-Length: ‘ .    filesize($file_path));

        @readfile($file_path);

        die();

}

 

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RentACoder.com vs. Elance

I recently found rentacoder.com and decided to have a look at how the site works, and how it may be of use to someone such as myself who does to odd bit of freelance web development work.
Rent a coder’s setup is pretty simple, people who need jobs done post the job plus a price range [...]

I recently went skiing with work and had to be a set of ski clothing and not being of standard shape and size (i.e. not tall and thin or fat and squat) I had real trouble fining the right size for me. As such I went looking all over the net for size guides which [...]

Morse 2 Mux

Morse to Mux is a website setup between the Optoelectronics Research Centre and the Department of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton with support from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, EPSRC.
The aim of the site is to be a resource on all things to do with optoelectronics and communications for [...]

Southampton OSA Chapter

Whilst on my PhD course at the University of Southampton’s Optoelectronics Research Centre I became a member of the Optical Society of America’s University of Southampton Student Chapter and as such became both their website developer and schools liaison officer (running science workshops on light and light technology for children).
During my time at Southampton I [...]

From this blog you can see the kind of things that interest me and I write about.
To aid me when writing content I use certain plug-ins to the core system to add in the functionality I require.
What follows is a list of the plug-ins I use to achieve the output you see from post to [...]

Regular Expression Archive

This is my archive of regular expressions for use in php usually with the preg_match type functions. If you can improve on these I’d like to know as they are mostly just harvested from other sources as I need them and it’s possible they could be improved:
This code isn’t strictly correct as word press’s inbuilt [...]

Bike Slime and Tyre Sparx

I do a lot of cycling every day and I’m fed up up with punctures occurring when I most need my bike to work - namely first thing in the morning when I’m running late for my train to work.
So yesterday I went to Halfords (my local bike superstore) to buy some tyre filler so that [...]

The Orange Tree Pub is an up it’s own ass, overpriced soul-less pub with very poor food and imbeciles behind the bar.
Today, I was in desperate need of an Internet connection in Richmond Town Centre, the Orange Tree apparently provide a wireless hub connected to premium providers as far as I could ascertain from the [...]





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