http://www.graysunderground.com Gray's Tech Blog Sat, 24 May 2008 21:58:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Been thinking of using a PHP framework found a very interesting slideshow on the Zend Framework. Any opinions? | View | Upload your own http://www.graysunderground.com/2008/05/24/php-frameworks/ Found a great slide that talks about the top 10 mistakes when programming scalable applications with PHP. Discusses everything from hardware to AJAX. The AJAX piece I found to be very interesting. Check it out and give me your thoughts. | View | Upload your own http://www.graysunderground.com/2008/05/23/top-10-scalability-mistakes-with-php/ Quick and easy way to validate email strings. I picked this bit of code up from somewhere, not sure where....Think it was the Zend site. Credit goes to the original unknown author, not me. <?php function is_email($address) { $rc1 = (ereg('^[-!#$%&'*+./0-9=?A-Z^_`a-z{|}~]+'. '@'. '[-!#$%&'*+\/0-9=?A-Z^_`a-z{|}~]+.'. '[-!#$%&'*+\./0-9=?A-Z^_`a-z{|}~]+$', $address)); $rc2 = (preg_match('/.+.ww+$/',$address)); return ($rc1 && $rc2); } ?> http://www.graysunderground.com/2008/04/25/quick-and-easy-php-function-to-validate-email-strings/ In Opera, go to Tools --> Preferences, and click on the search tab. You should "Add a new search engine" and fill in the blanks. Here is what I use:. Name: PHP Keyword: p Address: http://www.php.net/search.php Query string: pattern=%s&show=quickref You have to check "Use POST" to be able to type ... http://www.graysunderground.com/2008/04/24/quick-tip-for-you-phpopera-users/ When Apache generates any web pages or error pages, some important information about the version and other details implemented on the system are displayed in th web site server header. For example, the information text may be like this: Server: Apache/1.3.37 (Unix) mod_auth_passthrough/1.8 mod_log_bytes/1.2 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635.SR1.2 mod_ssl/2.8.28 OpenSSL/0.9.7a ... http://www.graysunderground.com/2008/02/08/make-sure-you-hide-your-apache-headers/ This was sent to me by my brother. I do not in any way take responsibility or claim writing any of it. I am sure this has been passed around on the internet since the internet was conceived as a bunch of tubes. Thats a bad attempt at humor ... http://www.graysunderground.com/2007/12/14/some-programmer-humor/ The Software development kit for google's new mobile OS is now available! My hope that by Google realizing a new open source mobile platform that it will change how mobile phones are produced and distributed. To me it seems Google is not trying to directly compete with the iPhone but ... http://www.graysunderground.com/2007/11/12/google-android-sdk-now-available/ Found a great little snippet of code to use for converting from American to Euro date format and back. $date=’12/31/2006’; print ereg_replace(”([0-9] )/([0-9] )/([0-9] )”,”\\2/\\1/\\3″,$date); Thanks to last-child.com for the Snippet. http://www.graysunderground.com/2007/10/16/php-convert-american-to-european-date-format/ Well looks like Microsoft is taking another swing at an mp3 player. Hopefully it will do much better. I do like the fact that the first gen Zunes are getting all of the features of the new zunes. Score one for Microsoft.   From Engadget: Hard drive Zunes It's called the Zune 80 and, ... http://www.graysunderground.com/2007/10/03/a-new-zune/ When you think about the world today, do you see most shopping and services are done in brick and mortar shops. It has always been done this way, but things are changing. Today we have global marketplaces with global reach via the internet, but why then is the US slipping ... http://www.graysunderground.com/2007/10/01/national-broadband-strategy/