Fri 14 Aug 2009
As you saw in my past post I am working on filtering user input into my PHP application. I don’t want to get to much into the boring details because I started to write the post explaining all the little details and I could see it getting very long and drawn out and unfocused. But [...]
Wed 12 Aug 2009
I wonder why none of the major PHP frameworks have validators for UTF-8 encoding? You may be asking why do I need to validate incoming text as UTF-8? UTF-8 is the preferred character encoding for the web, if you want to display languages other than the Latin derived ones. All of the browsers support it. [...]
Tue 28 Jul 2009
I’ve had an idea. I’ve been having lots of ideas lately but this one has been in my head for a while. There are lots of Content Management Systems or CMS’ out there, software that you use to build and maintain a website. They come in all shapes, sizes, and complexities. I have observed there [...]
Fri 19 Jun 2009
September. Damn that seems like a long time ago, because well it was. And a lot has happened since then. For one I’m married now. There is not much to blog about atucrossing over the winter b/c there really isn’t much autocrossing over the winter. Philly region does have a winter series but I didn’t [...]
Mon 10 Mar 2008
Last weekend I rolled out an upgrade to phpBB3 for my local SCCA region’s discussion forum. That includes a theme customized to match our region color of yellow. I have added on several extra features to extend the functionality of the software. One of which is a Topic Preview that show you an excerpt of [...]
Mon 4 Feb 2008
I’ve been busy lately with some geeky projects. Well one is kinda autocross related. :-p My SCCA Region runs a discussion forum as part of the website. Since I have some coding knowledge I volunteered to help put with the website and got put in charge of that. We use phpBB software. It’s free, its [...]
