Technical posts

Technical posts http://qfox.nl/notes Blog posts regarding technical, coding or related material. Javascript, PHP, Front-end development. Copyright 2010, Peter van der Zee Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:34:04 +0100 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:34:04 +0100 Tech My own PHP abomination http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 JS Regex Unicode Categories http://qfox.nl/notes?90 For a project I needed to parse characters from specific Unicode categories. while <a href='http://www.regular-expressions.info/unicode.html' target='_blank' class='nurl'>this page</a> suggests using the \p syntax for that, this is no... Peter@van.der.Zee Tech http://qfox.nl/weblog?90 Sat, 20 Feb 2010 16:54:40 +0100 JS boolean arrays http://qfox.nl/notes?89 So Brian Leroux released his <a href='http://wtfjs.com/' target='_blank' class='nurl'>WTFJS</a>. An interesting collection of oddities concerning Javascript. Now it so happens to be I'm working on a similar project, going through t... Peter@van.der.Zee Tech http://qfox.nl/weblog?89 Mon, 15 Feb 2010 21:18:12 +0100 JS arguments to array http://qfox.nl/notes?88 Why do I keep forgetting this... :/ Convert the arguments object to a proper array. Code: (JS) Array.prototype.slice.call(arguments); Hope it helps you... and hope I can remember ... Peter@van.der.Zee Tech http://qfox.nl/weblog?88 Sun, 14 Feb 2010 10:48:42 +0100 PHP dir cycle http://qfox.nl/notes?87 Cycle through a dir and get all the filenames... Code: (PHP)$strDir = 'source'; // no trailing slash $hndlDir = opendir($strDir); while (($strFile = readdir($hndlDir)) !== false) { if ($str... Peter@van.der.Zee Tech http://qfox.nl/weblog?87 Sun, 07 Feb 2010 14:13:57 +0100 Forgetfull wording http://qfox.nl/notes?86 These are words I forget. I tend ti forget very specific words and it's quite annoying. This list will grow over time, but you can probably just ignore it :) Augment... Peter@van.der.Zee Tech http://qfox.nl/weblog?86 Sun, 07 Feb 2010 13:59:50 +0100 PHP Creating a Zip http://qfox.nl/notes?85 This is how you create and serve a new zip file dynamically in PHP... Code: (PHP) $zipFileName = 'tmp.zip'; $fileToInclude = 'files/file.txt'; $textToInclude = 'hello world'; $objZip = ne... Peter@van.der.Zee Tech http://qfox.nl/weblog?85 Sun, 07 Feb 2010 11:54:57 +0100 PHP random string http://qfox.nl/notes?84 I needed to generate random usernames for creating random users and wanted to use a random string generator. There are quite some elaborate string generators out there, but I just wanted something ... Peter@van.der.Zee Tech http://qfox.nl/weblog?84 Fri, 05 Feb 2010 11:14:06 +0100 Smarty date proxy http://qfox.nl/notes?83 Today I was building an RSS feed in Smarty. Pretty straightforward (really, why the hell would you need complex libraries for such a simple tasks??). Anyhow, the database is MySQL and as such, will re... Peter@van.der.Zee Tech http://qfox.nl/weblog?83 Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:20:18 +0100 Javascript IDE http://qfox.nl/notes?82 After <a href='http://qfox.nl/notes/81'>my rip</a> on <a href='http://aptana.org' target='_blank' class='nurl'>Aptana</a> yesterday, I figured it's only fair to try and sum up what kind of IDE would satisfy me. Right now I'm using a text editor ... Peter@van.der.Zee Tech http://qfox.nl/weblog?82 Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:39:50 +0100 Aptana fail http://qfox.nl/notes?81 I heard a lot of buzz about <a href='http://aptana.org/' target='_blank' class='nurl'>Aptana</a> lately and just had to try it. So far I've not been able to find a good Javascript IDE but this sounded very promising. As the title sugg... Peter@van.der.Zee Tech http://qfox.nl/weblog?81 Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:29:52 +0100 JS Incremental Operator Flux http://qfox.nl/notes?80 Javascript, like so many other languages, supports the unary incremental operator (++). It supports both the prefix and postfix versions. Another blog post about <a href='http://webreflection.blogspot.co... Peter@van.der.Zee Tech http://qfox.nl/weblog?80 Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:20:44 +0100 PHP Constants in Smarty http://qfox.nl/notes?79 <a href='http://www.smarty.net/' target='_blank' class='nurl'>Smarty</a> is a good templating system. In my experience it lacks a bit of customizability, but so far I have been able to hold back on the urge of hacking it to do what I ... Peter@van.der.Zee Tech http://qfox.nl/weblog?79 Mon, 11 Jan 2010 23:10:34 +0100 Tile scroll demo http://qfox.nl/notes?78 So I built <a href='http://tiledemo.qfox.nl' target='_blank' class='nurl'>a fancy Javascript application</a> where some actor moves around in the screen. When the actor hits an invisible border near the center, the background starts s... Peter@van.der.Zee Tech http://qfox.nl/weblog?78 Fri, 08 Jan 2010 20:04:16 +0100 Clean HTML http://qfox.nl/notes?77 When I learned HTML about 12 years ago, I got this book from a friend about HTML 3. I learned about breaks and bold, about head and body and about font and blink. For me, it was just another langua... Peter@van.der.Zee Tech http://qfox.nl/weblog?77 Fri, 08 Jan 2010 19:15:47 +0100 Wrath of magic set http://qfox.nl/notes?76 "Javascript" had it <a href='https://developer.mozilla.org/En/Core_JavaScript_1.5_Guide:Creating_New_Objects:Defining_Getters_and_Setters' target='_blank' class='nurl'>for a while</a> now but the new <a href='http://www.ecma-international.o... Peter@van.der.Zee Tech http://qfox.nl/weblog?76 Wed, 30 Dec 2009 19:38:03 +0100 JS animation http://qfox.nl/notes?75 After creating the <a href='http://qfox.nl/notes?72' target='_blank' class='nurl'>parallax demo</a> I wanted to create an actual animation. But I suck at graphics so I figured I'd use an animation tutorial in flash and copy that to Ja... Peter@van.der.Zee Tech http://qfox.nl/weblog?75 Sat, 26 Dec 2009 10:58:59 +0100 Ajax script http://qfox.nl/notes?73 <a href='http://qfox.nl/files/Ajax.107.js' target='_blank' class='nurl'>This</a> is a small Ajax script I use. It amounts to 8k uncompressed, make that 2.5k when <a href='http://fmarcia.info/jsmin/test.html' target='_blank' class='nurl'>minified</a>. <a href='http://qfox... Peter@van.der.Zee Tech http://qfox.nl/weblog?73 Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:30:50 +0100 Parallax effect http://qfox.nl/notes?72 So after seeing RomÃ¡n CortÃ©s' <a href='http://www.romancortes.com/blog/css-3d-meninas/' target='_blank' class='nurl'>parallax effect</a> in pure HTML+CSS I thought to myself, that'd be easy in Javascript. So I made it my Xmas projec... Peter@van.der.Zee Tech http://qfox.nl/weblog?72 Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:03:26 +0100 Vragenlijstje http://qfox.nl/notes?71 Vragenlijstje die ik eens voor een sollicatieprocedure heb opgezet. Uiteindelijk besloten we om toch maar gewoon wat directe vragen te stellen :p Php - Stel, je hebt 120 verschillende kla... Peter@van.der.Zee Tech http://qfox.nl/weblog?71 Fri, 11 Dec 2009 13:50:02 +0100 SVN vs GIT http://qfox.nl/notes?70 Ok so we're at yet another crossroad where we can make some lasting decisions. The question at hand is do we keep using old SVN or should we switch to the ever so popular GIT? Lately I hear a lot o... Peter@van.der.Zee Tech http://qfox.nl/weblog?70 Wed, 09 Dec 2009 19:37:20 +0100