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Modifiers in regular expression patterns

Olaf — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 04:12:40 PDT

We all like regex patterns, because it’s a great way to select, filter or replace strings, numbers or complete code blocks. How about PCRE modifiers, do you use them very often? A few weeks ago...

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Image manipulations with Imagemagick

Olaf — Tue, 05 May 2009 13:05:08 PDT

A very powerful tool for creating and manipulating images is ImageMagick. With this tools you can create drawings, modify existing images or just process images. The tool is available for Linux,...

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.tel domain launch, the next mobile story

Olaf — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 13:45:21 PDT

Since a few days domain names with the .tel TLD are available for registration. After a sunrise and landrush period it’s possible to register your personal .tel ID for less than $20. Why buying...

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A new Wordpress theme for our blog

Olaf — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 03:12:55 PDT

Finally I found a new design for this blog site! I looked after a new theme the during the last weeks on several places and tried also commercial products as a “Woo” theme. Most of...

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AdSense for Domains, just another Domain Parking Service?

Olaf — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 11:44:17 PST

Actually “Adsense for domains” is just like most of the other domain parking services. So why should we park our unused domain names with Google? For a long time I never used any domain...

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Count clicks the right way!

Olaf — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 13:24:06 PST

If you own a link list or directory where the listings are ranked (on some page) on the number of outgoing hits, you’re possible victim of click fraud. There are not only people clicking their...

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Curl: Location redirect while open_basedir is set

Olaf — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 13:36:21 PST

If you need to follow redirects within your php code using Curl and the open_basedir is set you came into some trouble. If you disable this directive all your directories with a 777 permission are...

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Don’t trust your own websites!

Olaf — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 07:22:27 PST

A few minutes ago I did some search on Google and got some strange warnings for good websites I know for years: This site may harm your computer. This warning is nothing special but today all results...

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Just a better Internet portal provided by Google

Olaf — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 02:06:56 PDT

These days existing users of the service iGoogle have noticed some modifications on their personalized homepage. The page looks now more straight and has got some new great features. Maximize /...

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Upload images for usage in TinyMCE

Olaf — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:13:52 PDT

TinyMCE is a great online WYSIWYG editor which is used for a lot of projects, for example this Wordpress blog application (the content backend). I use TinyMCE for custom projects too. TinyMCE is...

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