http://qfox.nl/weblog More personal blogs, not specifically tech related Copyright 2010, Peter van der Zee Tue, 02 Mar 2010 21:30:33 +0100 Tue, 02 Mar 2010 21:30:33 +0100 Weblog My own PHP abomination http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://qfox.nl/weblog?189 These are the browser stats for <a href='http://waarbenjij.nu' target='_blank' class='nurl'><span class='redline'><span class='cb'>a popular Dutch travel blog</span></span></a> where I work right now. The special thing about these stats is that they were derived from a test that tried t... Peter@van.der.Zee General http://qfox.nl/weblog?189 Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:02:23 +0100 http://qfox.nl/weblog?188 I'm working on a Ecmascript 5 parser in Javascript. Yes yes, there are plenty. Whatever. I just want to do this myself.<br /><br />Having said that, I do keep bumping into small problems. They are probably mo... Peter@van.der.Zee General http://qfox.nl/weblog?188 Mon, 22 Feb 2010 22:05:44 +0100 http://qfox.nl/weblog?187 It seems web development is running around in circles. A few years back, web development was a pain in the ... somewhere. Standards were upcoming as well as support, but the world simply was IE6 and t... Peter@van.der.Zee General http://qfox.nl/weblog?187 Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:19:42 +0100 http://qfox.nl/weblog?186 Exit economic problems, enter technological revolution. Yes, revolution. You might not be aware of it, but these are once again exciting times!<br /><br />The past decade was one with virtually no technologic... Peter@van.der.Zee General http://qfox.nl/weblog?186 Sat, 30 Jan 2010 09:22:04 +0100 http://qfox.nl/weblog?184 I've added an RSS feed (again..), as it has was missing for about two years. It's cached and only updated when I add new items. It uses a last-modified header, which only Safari refuses to use (and af... Peter@van.der.Zee General http://qfox.nl/weblog?184 Sun, 27 Dec 2009 17:19:16 +0100 http://qfox.nl/weblog?181 I read <a href='http://snook.ca/archives/javascript/simplest-jquery-slideshow' target='_blank' class='nurl'><span class='redline'><span class='cb'>this</span></span></a> post from Jonathan Snook a while ago but I wasn't able to respond to it right there and then.<br /><br />I'm not going to pos... Peter@van.der.Zee General http://qfox.nl/weblog?181 Tue, 22 Dec 2009 22:28:19 +0100 http://qfox.nl/weblog?180 The qfox.nl and kuvos.nl domains have been spammed like since forever. Nothing new there. All domains get spam. Shorter more than longer ones, popular more than unpopular (these aren't popular :)).<br /><br />... Peter@van.der.Zee General http://qfox.nl/weblog?180 Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:51:27 +0100 http://qfox.nl/weblog?179 So Google released a JS library of their own. They decided to coin the library <a href='http://code.google.com/intl/nl/closure/' target='_blank' class='nurl'><span class='redline'><span class='cb'>"Closure Tools"</span></span></a>. Now, this goes in line of their naming convention of us... Peter@van.der.Zee General http://qfox.nl/weblog?179 Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:32:14 +0100 http://qfox.nl/weblog?178 <a href='http://bespin.mozilla.com' target='_blank' class='nurl'><span class='redline'><span class='cb'>This</span></span></a> came up in the final talk of <a href='http://twitter.com/dalmaer' target='_blank' class='nurl'><span class='redline'><span class='cb'>Dion</span></span></a> and <a href='http://twitter.com/bgalbs' target='_blank' class='nurl'><span class='redline'><span class='cb'>Ben</span></span></a>. They talked about Bespin, an RIA editor, which... Peter@van.der.Zee General http://qfox.nl/weblog?178 Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:00:21 +0100 http://qfox.nl/weblog?177 The past two days I was at the <a href='http://fronteers.nl/congres/2009' target='_blank' class='nurl'><span class='redline'><span class='cb'>Fronteers 09 conference</span></span></a>. It was really interesting and I've seen and listened to some amazing stuff (and some lesser amazing st... Peter@van.der.Zee General http://qfox.nl/weblog?177 Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:51:30 +0100 http://qfox.nl/weblog?175 Woohoo. I've won a ticket to the Fronteers '09 congress :D<br /><br />Really happy about that. Was very close to missing it.<br /><br />I've won it by creating a webslice. You can find mine <a href='http://kuvos.nl/slice/s... Peter@van.der.Zee General http://qfox.nl/weblog?175 Sun, 01 Nov 2009 12:51:56 +0100 http://qfox.nl/weblog?174 Quick note. Revamped the looks of the website a little. Added some fonts, changed colors, added a typical column color layout and added some background tiles to make it look less stale.<br /><br />You can use... Peter@van.der.Zee General http://qfox.nl/weblog?174 Sun, 25 Oct 2009 21:53:10 +0100 http://qfox.nl/weblog?173 Joined a group called <a href='http://fronteers.nl' target='_blank' class='nurl'><span class='redline'><span class='cb'>Fronteers</span></span></a>. Was actually trying to find some kind of Javascript related conference in the Netherlands, when I stumbled upon them. Luckily they are als... Peter@van.der.Zee General http://qfox.nl/weblog?173 Tue, 13 Oct 2009 22:53:11 +0200 http://qfox.nl/weblog?172 There seems to be a shift in the Matrix. Where everything used to be personalized, the it all seems to shift towards some kind of cloud recently. You don't make personal websites anymore. It just does... Peter@van.der.Zee General http://qfox.nl/weblog?172 Thu, 13 Aug 2009 23:46:10 +0200 http://qfox.nl/weblog?169 Hm, wanneer was de laatste keer dat ik echt iets over mezelf blogde... Juni 2008? Dan is het wel weer eens tijd voor een update :)<br /><br />Met mij alles goed eigenlijk. Ben mijn studie aan het afronden, he... Peter@van.der.Zee General http://qfox.nl/weblog?169 Mon, 02 Mar 2009 20:56:48 +0100 http://qfox.nl/weblog?168 Now I've been using Internet Explorer since forever so any Firefox hooligan should probably turn away now. I'll try to keep things as objective as possible though. And in all fairness, browser prefere... Peter@van.der.Zee General http://qfox.nl/weblog?168 Tue, 03 Mar 2009 13:54:37 +0100 http://qfox.nl/weblog?165 Aangaan de zaak waarbij de minister van defensie niet door had (of was vergeten, of wat dan ook) dat hij een opmerking had gemaakt waar pers bij aanwezig was (maar niet direct tegen de pers ofzo) dien... Peter@van.der.Zee General http://qfox.nl/weblog?165 Sun, 25 Jan 2009 20:48:33 +0100 http://qfox.nl/weblog?162 So I bought myself a new domain. I decided that, if I want to push my software to an international market, I'd better have an international domain for it.<br /><br />So to prevent having to take a huge name l... Peter@van.der.Zee General http://qfox.nl/weblog?162 Tue, 06 Jan 2009 10:52:14 +0100 http://qfox.nl/weblog?161 So after setting up the webpage I've finally launched the <a href='http://cbc.qfox.nl' target='_blank' class='nurl'><span class='redline'><span class='cb'>Lua Console Bot Contest</span></span></a> where you have to write a bot and compete against other bots in playing console games.<br /><br />... Peter@van.der.Zee General http://qfox.nl/weblog?161 Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:34:56 +0100 http://qfox.nl/weblog?159 So I've spent most of today searching for a proper PHP IDE (Integrated Development Environment). My boss requested that I'd stop working in my text editor and start using a real environment.<br /><br />Althou... Peter@van.der.Zee General http://qfox.nl/weblog?159 Sun, 09 Nov 2008 22:21:19 +0100 http://qfox.nl/notes Blog posts regarding technical, coding or related material. Javascript, PHP, Front-end development. Copyright 2010, Peter van der Zee Tue, 02 Mar 2010 21:30:33 +0100 Tue, 02 Mar 2010 21:30:33 +0100 Tech My own PHP abomination http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 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'><span class='redline'><span class='cb'>this page</span></span></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 http://qfox.nl/notes?89 So Brian Leroux released his <a href='http://wtfjs.com/' target='_blank' class='nurl'><span class='redline'><span class='cb'>WTFJS</span></span></a>. An interesting collection of oddities concerning Javascript.<br /><br />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 http://qfox.nl/notes?88 Why do I keep forgetting this... :/<br />Convert the arguments object to a proper array.<br /><br /></p><p>Code: (<b>JS</b>)</p><p class='code'><br />Array.prototype.slice.call(arguments);<br /></p><p><br /><br />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 http://qfox.nl/notes?87 Cycle through a dir and get all the filenames...<br /><br /></p><p>Code: (<b>PHP</b>)</p><p class='code'>$strDir = 'source'; // no trailing slash<br />$hndlDir = opendir($strDir);<br />while (($strFile = readdir($hndlDir)) !== false) {<br /> if ($str... Peter@van.der.Zee Tech http://qfox.nl/weblog?87 Sun, 07 Feb 2010 14:13:57 +0100 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 :)<br /><br />Augment... Peter@van.der.Zee Tech http://qfox.nl/weblog?86 Sun, 07 Feb 2010 13:59:50 +0100 http://qfox.nl/notes?85 This is how you create and serve a new zip file dynamically in PHP...<br /><br /></p><p>Code: (<b>PHP</b>)</p><p class='code'><br />$zipFileName = 'tmp.zip';<br />$fileToInclude = 'files/file.txt';<br />$textToInclude = 'hello world';<br /><br />$objZip = ne... Peter@van.der.Zee Tech http://qfox.nl/weblog?85 Sun, 07 Feb 2010 11:54:57 +0100 http://qfox.nl/notes?84 I needed to generate random usernames for creating random users and wanted to use a random string generator.<br /><br />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 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 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'><span class='redline'><span class='cb'>Aptana</span></span></a> yesterday, I figured it's only fair to try and sum up what kind of IDE would satisfy me.<br /><br />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 http://qfox.nl/notes?81 I heard a lot of buzz about <a href='http://aptana.org/' target='_blank' class='nurl'><span class='redline'><span class='cb'>Aptana</span></span></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 http://qfox.nl/notes?80 Javascript, like so many other languages, supports the unary incremental operator (++). It supports both the prefix and postfix versions.<br /><br />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 http://qfox.nl/notes?79 <a href='http://www.smarty.net/' target='_blank' class='nurl'><span class='redline'><span class='cb'>Smarty</span></span></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 http://qfox.nl/notes?78 So I built <a href='http://tiledemo.qfox.nl' target='_blank' class='nurl'><span class='redline'><span class='cb'>a fancy Javascript application</span></span></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 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.<br /><br />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 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'><span class='redline'><span class='cb'>for a while</span></span></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 http://qfox.nl/notes?75 After creating the <a href='http://qfox.nl/notes?72' target='_blank' class='nurl'><span class='redline'><span class='cb'>parallax demo</span></span></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 http://qfox.nl/notes?73 <a href='http://qfox.nl/files/Ajax.107.js' target='_blank' class='nurl'><span class='redline'><span class='cb'>This</span></span></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'><span class='redline'><span class='cb'>minified</span></span></a>.<br /><br /><a href='http://qfox... Peter@van.der.Zee Tech http://qfox.nl/weblog?73 Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:30:50 +0100 http://qfox.nl/notes?72 So after seeing Román Cortés' <a href='http://www.romancortes.com/blog/css-3d-meninas/' target='_blank' class='nurl'><span class='redline'><span class='cb'>parallax effect</span></span></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 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<br /><br /><b>Php</b><br /><br />- Stel, je hebt 120 verschillende kla... Peter@van.der.Zee Tech http://qfox.nl/weblog?71 Fri, 11 Dec 2009 13:50:02 +0100 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?<br /><br />Lately I hear a lot o... Peter@van.der.Zee Tech http://qfox.nl/weblog?70 Wed, 09 Dec 2009 19:37:20 +0100