State of the Browsers and ad blocking
In my last post about CSS layout and ads, a commenter brought up that the dealnews.com web site did not handle extensions like Ad Block very gracefully. To which I responded that I don't care. To whic...
Google Chrome and privacy
So, Google Chrome is out. If you don't know, it's Google's new browser. I downloaded it on my Windows XP machine and tried it out. I found this curious thing in the options. So, I thought, I will...
Spreading Open Source (sort of)
So, I know I just had a kid, but I am at a friends house helping with some computer issues. This is the friend that took my wife to the hospital and sat with her until I got there, after all. She ...
O'Reilly Open Source Conference Day One
Day one is complete. Portland is great as always. Its really day 1 1/2 since we got in at 1PM yesterday. That allowed us to go to the MySQL/Zend party last night. Great party by those guys. ...
HTML Purifier and Phorum
There have been several posts about HTML Purifier 2.0 lately. I did not look to closely at it until I saw this post on our Phorum support forum. Seems the creator of HTML Purifier has chosen Phorum ...
Quick script to check user bandwidth usage
A buddy needed a quick report to see if one of his users was slamming his site. I got a little carried away and wrote a PHP script (plus some awk and grep) to make a little report for him. I am sure...
Browser KeepAlive Secrets
So, at dealnews, we are getting ready to launch a super secret thing (redesign beta preview) that requires us to use some cookie tricks. What we decided to do was to give our users a link to a page ...
Feeling Lucky with Yahoo!
So, one of the things I always use in Firefox is the auto Google Feeling Lucky feature. If you don't know what I mean, then load Firefox and type php in the address bar. You will most likely go to h...