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Index of pages filed with the "Programming" tag (listing records 11 to 20 of 21):
- Extending User Comments
(Date: Tue 1-Jun-2004 | Comments: 16 | Permalink)
My comment handler is missing one pretty significant feature, there is no support for any kind of mark-up. I am going to add this functionality now but, before I do, I need to know what to implement ... (continue reading) - Latest Addition: The Dynamic Blogroll
(Date: Fri 28-May-2004 | Comments: 8 | Permalink)
We all know that blogs thrive on linkage and mine is no different to any other. Thus, I have added a dynamic blogroll to the weblog ... (continue reading) - Bug Tracker Needed
(Date: Thu 13-May-2004 | Comments: 9 | Permalink)
My faithful pen-and-paper bug log is becoming less and less effective each time I take on a new development project. I am looking for suggestions / recommendations for a good bug-tracker application. Basic prequisites for the system are that it must ... (continue reading) - Auto-linking URL's
(Date: Wed 21-Apr-2004 | Comments: 2 | Permalink)
As more and more websites are driven by applications rather than static files, links are becoming increasingly complicated. I have noticed that the REGEX I use for identifying URL's is failing with increasing freqency. So I went in search of a replacement ... (continue reading) - Defending Against Comment Spam
(Date: Tue 23-Mar-2004 | Comments: 27 | Permalink)
One of the problems with running a website that allows users to post content (whether "comments", forum posts or even just a "contact us" form) is that the systems that provide the interactivity are also a channel that spammers can use to pass on their ... (continue reading) - The Virtual Office
(Date: Wed 3-Mar-2004 | Comments: 5 | Permalink)
I've been away from the office for the past few days. I'm tucked away in a remote corner of Winchester working with our partners, 8th Day Studios. Whilst here, I have discovered a couple of minor bugs in the Urban Mainframe's CMS. Thankfully, this is ... (continue reading) - Midnight Programmer
(Date: Mon 1-Mar-2004 | Comments: 8 | Permalink)
In his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, "The Soul of a New Machine", Tracy Kidder writes about the "Midnight Programmer", that lonely breed whose twilight existence is responsible for most of the applications we take for granted on our desktop. In this article ... (continue reading) - Function: time_since()
(Date: Tue 17-Feb-2004 | Comments: 17 | Permalink)
I have taken Natalie Downe's "time_since" function, recoded it in Perl and made my "Last Modified" time-stamp a little more user-friendly ... (continue reading) - Vital Bookshelf
(Date: Mon 9-Feb-2004 | Comments: 0 | Permalink)
When I'm writing code, for Shapeshifter or otherwise, I always have the same library close to hand ... (continue reading) - Gallery Navigation
(Date: Sun 8-Feb-2004 | Comments: 0 | Permalink)
Today I came to realise that my image galleries weren't as user-friendly as they could have been. So it's out with the text-editor for a little coding ... (continue reading)
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