A cursory glance around the web will reveal a ton of PHP-based random string generators. With enough looking you’ll find generators that do any of the following: Strings with letters Strings with numbers Strings with letters and numbers Uppercase, lowercase Fixed, variable length strings Option to include symbols Problem is, none of them ever incorporated [...]
Read More extension, programming, securityBuilding off my last post, where I showed you how to easily display any public Twitter feed on your site, I ran into another problem: the dates that are delivered by the Twitter API all reflect Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). Now I thought about going the old route and doing some convoluted math using date(), [...]
Read More extension, fwdvault, programming, standardsUpdate: I’ve added a new chunk of code that will download and store your Twitter posts in a database, allowing you to do whatever the heck you want with them. After you’ve finished reading this, be sure to check that out as well. I am not a fan of social networking or so-called lifestreaming. I [...]
Read More extension, fwdvault, php, TwitterIt seems to be some rite of passage for tech-focused blogs that they create a list of their favorite Firefox extensions. Who am I to break custom? If you’re not a web-developer, you can ignore the ones described as such, and consider the rest highly recommended. I have yet to find someone with as many [...]
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