Archive for October, 2006

Posting with PHP

[php]
function postData($datastream, $url) {
$url = preg_replace(“@^http://@i”, “”, $url);
$host = substr($url, 0, strpos($url, “/”));
$uri = strstr($url, “/”);
$reqbody = “”;
foreach($datastream as $key=>$val)
{
if (!empty($reqbody)) $reqbody.= “&”;
$reqbody.= $key.”=”.urlencode($val);
}
$contentlength = strlen($reqbody);
$reqheader = “POST $uri [...]

SGI Arises From the Ashes

SGI are getting alot of bad press at the moment, but checkout some of there open source projects here
Read more here

Removing .svn Executable Properties from a Working Copy

[Bash]
find dirname -name .svn -exec rm -rf {} \;
[/Bash]

Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP Available Now

Today we released Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP. I encourage everyone to download the final version from http://www.microsoft.com/ie.
We listened carefully to feedback from many sources (including this blog) and worked hard to deliver a safer browser that makes everyday tasks easier. When I first posted publicly about IE7, I wrote that we would go [...]

Linux Kernel Goes Real-Time

Additional real-time technology will be incorporated into the mainline Linux kernel starting with version 2.6.18, TimeSys reports. The real-time support, which previously had to be installed as kernel patches, was developed in part by TimeSys senior open source developer Thomas Gleixner (pictured), the company says.
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/10/14/2132244&from=rss

Microsoft IIS Serves 54.9% of Fortune 1000 Web Sites

Interesting…. http://www.port80software.com/surveys/top1000webservers/

Lambda Expressions

“The Lambda Expression is the heart of Lisp’s notion of a function. The term comes from Alonzo Church’s “lambda calculus” — a development of mathematical logic. You can think of a lambda expression as an anonymous function. Just like a function it has a list of parameters and a block of code specifying operations on [...]

Put a different kind of change in your pocket.

“Choose the iPod nano (PRODUCT) RED Special Edition and Apple will give $10 of its purchase price to the Global Fund to fight AIDS in Africa.”
here
 

How to block the automatic installation of Internet Explorer 7

“Earlier this week, Microsoft announced that Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) was just about ready to be shipped. The company also warned that, a few weeks after the browser’s release, it would be distributed via Automatic Updates. In order to prevent mass chaos, Microsoft has said that the automatic installation of the new browser can be [...]

Browser fragmentation grows

Broswer fragmentation continues to grow, and therefore so does the business case against NOT writing code for multiple codebases. http://blogs.zdnet.com/Stewart/?p=141