Author Archives: Donncha

Allegro graphics library. I used this in a college project about 6 years ago and it’s excellent.

What a weekend! Spent it up in Mayo.. great weather on Friday driving up, rained on Saturday, rained on Sunday, great weather on Monday as we drove down. Still, had a great time.

Queen Mother dies. – Some of Martina’s cousins live in London and they were shocked to hear this news. More on Ananova

Why it always pays to read the complete thread of a discussion on a mailing list, but there’s always one who gets caught.

Posh Spice in the bath – She’s advertising Walker’s Crisps!

How worms bypass mail filters – I got this off the Esd-l mailing list.

Coding Conventions

Or stuff I do when programming.

This is PHP orientated but applies elsewhere too.
I like to code using classes, and the functions in those classes for the most part return true or false. If a function returns false, then an internal variable, $this->error gets the error message set by the function.

When I’m working on forms, my validation function returns true or false, but $this->error is an array indexed by form elements which allows me to define a per-element error message that my printForm() function can use.
On the same subject, I populate a single array with form elements which makes it easier to walk through those elements.

Lens thief caught by the camera he stole the lens off. He pleaded guilty to theft and criminal damage. He says he stole the lens as a joke.

Why I love Faqts. When I have a problem and I’m not sure how to phrase it, it’s great that there’s such a wealth of knowledge here that I find a solution.

Fr O’Toole’s funeral in Headford today

There’s a huge traffic pile-up on the M40 this morning. At least one person is dead and there’s a 20,000 car tail back.

Do the Irish like to drink? Nah!