I’m off coffee. I was never a big drinker, enjoying a cup with my breakfast and perhaps with my lunch later but I’ve gone cold turkey.
I’m off it two weeks now! 3 days into it I got an almost-unbearable headache for an hour but it disappeared and that’s it!
It’s still tempting however.. going into a cafe last weekend was a trial!
Thankfully I can think and work without extra stimulus.
Author Archives: Donncha
67.39.204.162 = idiot
Right, who’s at 67.39.204.162?
Ameritech Electronic Commerce NET-AMER-673600 (NET-67-36-0-0-1)
67.36.0.0 - 67.39.255.255
PPPoX Pool - Rback5 BCVLOH SBC067039204000030903 (NET-67-39-204-0-1)
67.39.204.0 - 67.39.207.255
That’s who. You’re blocked from this server until you reign in your “wani11202” bot that was drowning us in requests. Feckin’ eejit.
Cropping with an Aspect Ratio in the GIMP
Cropping with an Aspect Ratio in the GIMP – another easy to follow tutorial by Eric Jeschke, the GIMP Guru!
The crop tool in GIMP 2.2 has a handy “Aspect ratio” text box which I’ve used but this method is easier.
8 reasons to hate cats
I love cats, but not everyone does: 8 Reasons to Hate Cats, 8 More Reasons to Hate Cats, Yet Another 8 Reasons to Hate Cats and finally Hey! There Are 8 More Reasons to Hate Cats. (Look At This…)
Since there are so many cat lovers around here, I thought I’d share this video of an adorable kitten who simply cannot stay awake…
Testing the Developer
Usability testing can be daunting and goes overlooked in the rush to get things out the door, but it’s important, if somewhat hard on the egos of developers when their super-duper ideas are torn down and trodden on!
See the great comic too! hehe.
Even Better than the Real Thing Vol.3
I bought Today FM’s newest album on Saturday and it’s an excellent compilation of U2 covers. I love Vertigo done by Kevin Doyle, an Elvis impersonator but there’s some great music on this 2-CD set, and all profits go to the UNICEF Tsunami Relief Fund!
Go buy it, it’s in the shops now!
Smarty Sample Application: Guestbook
Ooh nice. Monte Ohrt wrote a guestbook as a demonstration of how to use Smarty to seperate presentation and code.
It’s well laid out and described in detail. If you’ve wondered what this Smarty thing is take a look at this and read through it a few times.
Later… PHP Guru has a guide to setting up an application’s structure which is worth a look!
My Top Two PHP Security Practices (via phpcomplete)
Synamic Typing (via PHP Everywhere)
lighttpd – lighttpd a secure, fast, compliant and very flexible web-server which has been optimized for high-performance environments. It has a very low memory footprint compared to other webservers and takes care of cpu-load. Its advanced feature-set (FastCGI, CGI, Auth, Output-Compression, URL-Rewriting and many more) make lighttpd the perfect webserver-software for every server that is suffering load problems. (via michel_v on IRC)
Infra Red Webcam
How to make your webcam see in infra red! Just wish I could get my webcam to work. It’s the crappy one IOL gave away with their broadband package and doesn’t play well with Linux or even Windows if a recent thread on ILUG is to be believed!
The Art of James Bond
The Art of James Bond – very very cool!