Archive for month: June, 2009

@ operator is slow

21 June, 2009 (09:44)

The @ “operator” in PHP is used to silence any warnings or errors that would otherwise be shown (in the browser or the log). It’s really useful, because sometimes you know you can safely ignore a warning or error, when checking if a GET variable is set for instance. Until today I though that, if [...]

Aliiike recommendation engine

16 June, 2009 (19:21)

We updated igre123.com today and one of the main new features is the recommended games you see on the right of the game you are playing:

You may not see this if you go see for yourself. Either you are viewing a game that hasn’t got enough data collected to show the recommendations or you are [...]

Anonymous paradise

11 June, 2009 (15:57)

Google’s gmail is great; I can’t imagine working with email without it. Unfortunately, as with everything, there are some issues with it.
Did you know that the following email addresses all “translate” to the same account: not.a.real.email@gmail.com,notarealemail@gmail.com, not.arealemail@gmail.com, n.o.t.a.r.e.a.l.e.m.a.i.il@gmailcom, … ?
This is great, because who could remember where the dots are when somebody tells you his [...]

php konferenca 2009

6 June, 2009 (18:15)

This year’s Slovenian PHP conference just finished. This was the second installment of the only PHP event here in Slovenia. It’s a shame I wasn’t there last year so I can’t compare. Overall I was really impressed with everything, all but two talks ware magnificent. Guys from videolectures.net have recorded the whole thing so you [...]

IE6 is dead … over the weekend

4 June, 2009 (21:28)

Every time I’m writing new HTML&CSS I check google analytics to see what browsers our users are using. I do this so I can determine what browsers must be supported and if Internet Explorer 6 is, by any chance, dead yet. This is, annoyingly, still not the case (I shall be very drunk when that day [...]