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Google unveils chrome
3 September 2008, 6:33 am

Google has reveal their browser Google chrome today. There is a comic that explains all about it on the google chrome site.  The browser is open sourced and is based on the webkit project which powers browser like Safari. Google apparently have a little […]

The programming “zone”. Fiction or myth?
4 August 2008, 1:14 pm

The programming craft Programming is a creative process. Despite the technical nature of programming codes, the process of coding is involves a lot of creative thinking and problem solving. Paul Graham talks of “Hacker and Painters” and compar […]

6 tips to make your fellow coders love you
30 July 2008, 12:31 pm

6 tips to make your fellow coders love you Code readability is paramount in an environment where you are not the only one reading and writing the code. And even if you are the only developer of your system, I know more than a few coders that read a code t […]

A shell script for creating a selfsigned cert.
25 July 2008, 1:10 pm

Intro A selfsigned cert is a digital certificate that is created by using a certification authority certificate that is issued by yourself. This is usefull for backend communications between servers that need the protection of a SSL tunnl but don’t […]

Filter you output with HTML Purifier
21 July 2008, 2:34 pm

Now that you set up a rich text editor to you phpLD directory you would want to set up some filtering to prevent sites from doing nasty things like maybe insert a javascript in your site. Most phpld templates is already doing this. But they are using the […]

Rich text editor
21 July 2008, 2:33 pm

After seeing countless phpld directory submission form. One thing strike me as strange. It’s that they still use your plain old text area as the input field for the site description. I’ve always thought that a rich text editor will be so much […]