Archive for January, 2008

list of accepted encodings that can be passed to mb_convert_encoding as arguments

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

I was looking at the documentation for PHP’s mb_convert_encoding function. ()

I was having difficulty finding …

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Posted in PHP Syntax, PHP, UTF-8 | No Comments »

online tool to determine character encoding of a web page

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

I am having difficulty determining the “best guess” character encoding of a particular web page.

It would be …

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Black Monday 21st Jan 2008 or Black Tuesday 22nd Jan 2008

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

Its time to batten down the hatches folks!

USA comes back off holiday tomorrow. Could it be that …

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Posted in economics | 1 Comment »

Why Facebook is so slow

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

I have just read a blog post which comments about the average time it …

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Posted in building Facebook applications, social networks, faceparty | 17 Comments »

software to manage development processes of a website - bugs, features and security issues

Saturday, January 5th, 2008

I’m beginning a new hunt. This time I’m doing some research with the aim of choosing an …

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Posted in bug tracking, issue tracking tools, feature request management | 1 Comment »

Is it possible to rearrange minimized icons on taskbar in Windows XP?

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008

On many occasions I have been frustrated at having to open and close my  applications on Windows …

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Personal Research Into Character Encoding - Those Funny Characters Explained

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008

This blog post follows on from the post that I wrote whilst I was digging around …

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Posted in PHP, web design, screen scraping, UTF-8, character encodings | 1 Comment »