December 18th, 2009 — Tech
If you’re reading a lot of code you may get to the point where you’d like it to be clean, so it’s easier for you to read. There’re a lot of resources about the beauty of code around and in this post I’d like to share some ideas about writing concise if statements.
Although these ideas may apply to a lot of different programming languages I chose to give examples written in Java, PHP or Python. There should be no problem to translate this into other, similar languages.
December 6th, 2009 — Tech
In case you’re trying to change the configuration of your proxy server you might want to check what appears in the logs of a web server returning data to your proxy. Maybe you want to suppress certain HTTP header fields or make sure that the browser’s user agent is forged correctly.
This post discusses a PHP script which tries to display helpful information from the web server’s perspective. Although it may not be complete you can easily extend it to suit your needs.
December 2nd, 2009 — Tech
In case you’re using PHP to retrieve data from a certain server you probably came across the problem that it may work for you but a client complained about lots of errors. It’s pretty likely that you’ve relied on the fact that allow_url_fopen is set to true. This way you can put pretty much anything – local path or a URL – into function calls like include or maybe simplexml_load_file.
