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Latest posts
Snippets: Accented Characters
This is a quick and dirty PHP hack which will convert accented characters to their non-accented version (e.g. á to a). It relies on the HTML entity starting with the unaccented character. It's highly volatile and likely to fail as it will convert & and other characters that you may not want converted.
Full Frontal 2011
There was a contest after Full Frontal to write a blog post about the conference and be in with a chance to win a couple of tickets for next year's event. The deadline was the end of November so I may have missed that… Full Frontal had an interesting line up and venue – the ever good Duke of Yorks cinema in Brighton who provided free coffee and pastry treats throughout the day. Fruit was provided by Prem at Dharma Fly which is a nice touch for a conference of geeks. Prem also hosts the fortnightly AsyncJS meet up, which is worth checking out if you're ever in Brighton.
Interconnectedness in 2012
I noticed with interest earlier this month the news that Berg (Design consultancy) have announced the impending availability of their Little Printer – a small newpaper printer for use in the home. It's going to be based on their Berg Cloud – a system for controlling (smart) products from the Internet.
Snippets: Unique Id
A very simple function for creating a unique id in JavaScript.
Working with Internet Explorer 6
There is a phrase often uttered by clients. A phrase so nefarious that it makes developers weep, bawl, and ultimately rage.
Version control with GIT - Creating a local repository
Creating your first Git repository
Blocking Spam Comments Using a Honey Pot
Everyone who uses the internet is familiar with spam and the problems it causes. Most people's familiarity is through its intrusion on email, but since running the Nomad site we've had to deal with a lot of comment spam. It goes in phases but we receive something like 10 to 20 spam comments per week all of which get flagged so don't appear on the site.
Tales From the Internet: Quantum Locking and Responsive CSS
This month we have mostly been looking at CSS, with the odd sprinkling of info about Android and quantum locking.
OO Programming
Recently at Nomad we were talking about Object Oriented Programming and I ended up going on for a bit. So what follows is an expansion of the email conversation we had, including the crab and sheep related example. It's mostly in C# with some PHP thrown in and a brief splash of Java. If you squint hard enough they all look the same.
