Archive for August, 2008

Dice Sprites in GIF format

After spending about 20 minutes trying to find a good set of graphics for a dice rolling script I was working on I decided it was faster to just create my own. 5 minutes in Photoshop and I was done. There are individual files for each of the 6 die faces, an animated [...]

How to uninstall u3 software

Why can’t we just buy a USB key drive without any software on it? I bought a 2gb Cruzer last weekend because I wanted a 2gb thumb drive, not because I wanted the U3 software. If I’m going to put applications on it they’ll be from Portable Apps anyway. And that would [...]

Trimming array elements in PHP

Several times I’ve had a user setting that was separated by commas that I needed to split out into an array. People, correctly, put a space after commas. But for the array the space shouldn’t be there. Here’s a quick tip to strip out those leading spaces.
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$array = array_map(‘trim’, $array);

array_map [...]

How important is design to the success of a forum?

How important do you think design is to the success of a forum?  It’s an extremely popular topic on web design forums.  Content or design?  Which has the bigger effect on the success of a forum?
I don’t think anyone would argue that a forum can succeed without good content, but how big of a part [...]

Sometimes spam is just funny

Spam is one of those problems that you can’t do much about, so you might as well try and find a little humor.
Perfect example. I just got an email to moderate a comment here that was a spam ad for software to spam forums, blogs, and guestbooks. Were I looking for such software, [...]