Archive for April, 2005

Function Overloading in PHP

April 19th, 2005

Update: I have written about a more Java-like, argument based overloading solution here.
I’ve been trying to get a set of good basic functions included within my PHP framework and ran across a nice little trick to allow function (without a class) overloading, the code should speak for itself.
This will be the default file.

if(!function_exists(”overloadableFunc”) ) {
[…]


Drug Arrest Ethics

April 18th, 2005

Recently a group of Australians was arrested in Bali for trying to smuggle 11kg of Heroin into Australia. What makes it interesting to me is that the Australian Federal Police provided the intelligence to the Indonesian police so that they could make the arrests. This basically has sentenced the perpetrators (some or all of who […]


The term AJAX

April 18th, 2005

Matt Haughey writes about the noise surrounding the term AJAX. I agree with him wholeheartedly and wanted to add, that searching for information that is the conglomeration of Javascript+DHTML+XML has suddenly become a dream as now everyone is tagging the technology set as the same thing. Personally, I think it’s a win-win situation.


Cool or unCool

April 17th, 2005

I recently subscribed to Planet Ubuntu (because I don’t have enough to do anyway). One of the guys is talking about unCool being the new cool. I think that it’s a case of people doing what they want to do and not what society wants them to do that is the difference between the 2 […]


CIA Factbook

April 6th, 2005

Rod was working hard all day, telling me over Messenger useless facts about Bahrain. He sent me a link to one of the best resources for geography (is that what information about countries is called). The CIA Factbook


Windows Messenger Flaw

April 5th, 2005

I (and the network I administer) use Windows Messenger for Instant Messaging, I actually quite like the software, it’s one of the few examples of Microsoft doing something simple and right, this coupled with the fact it seems to be one of the few programs that will integrate with Live Communication Server make it the […]


New Wiki

April 4th, 2005

Today I saw that Dreamhost has a 1 click setup for media wiki, so I have set up a wiki. I’m not sure what I’m going to use it for, but I’ll figure something out.


Volleyball Websites

April 4th, 2005

I’ve been playing with updating the Toowoomba Volleyball website. Mainly doing a few changes to get the content up to date. I also set up a blog for the USQ Volleyball club.


Interesting Computer Essays

April 3rd, 2005

I was doing some random surfing and came across these cool essays on random computer stuff.