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Take a break from coding with online bingo 17 Jun 2011 | 03:37 am
Dealing with code can be a pretty taxing business simply because you are constantly focused on the job at hand and you are likely to face long hours at the screen doing nothing but work. However, you ...
Holy Wars, aka Vi vs Emacs 29 Mar 2010 | 09:48 pm
As a long-time Windows user, there was always something which confused me when it came to learning my trade on Linux based systems – the sheer amount of choice in apps on offer to fulfill a single tas...
Google Code is 5 today! 20 Mar 2010 | 11:53 pm
Google Code has turned the grand old age of 5 today, having been launched on the 17th March 2005. I’d like to say well done! While some people may think Google Code is yet another SourceForge clone, ...
Quick tips: Parallel Loading 16 Mar 2010 | 04:55 am
“Parallel loading” is what I like to call the feature of all modern web browsers – to request multiple files at the same time. For instance, when you load this web page the first thing to be grabbed i...
Is HipHop really worth it? 10 Mar 2010 | 06:08 am
In case you missed the news, a few months ago Facebook announced on their developer blog that they were releasing a piece of software to the wider community. That piece of software is called ‘HipHop’ ...
Change of management! 5 Mar 2010 | 06:25 am
Regular followers of this blog will remember that in the middle of 2009, the original author could no longer commit to posting new articles and announced their departure with a final blog. I would lik...
My Final Post 3 Jun 2009 | 08:08 am
The time has come for me to stop writing on Talk In Code. It has been a fun couple of years, and I have learnt a lot, but as of today I will not be able to write any more posts on this blog. I want to...
Extract Keywords From A Text String With PHP 22 May 2009 | 04:34 am
A common issue I have come across in the past is that I have a CMS system, or an old copy of WordPress, and I need to create a set of keywords to be used in the meta keywords field. To solve this I pu...
Excel Document Scanning With Zend_Search_Lucene 11 May 2009 | 09:25 pm
Zend_Search_Lucene offers some powerful document scanning capabilities, and there are a few different formats that are useful for the search engine to index. To allow the indexing and searching of Ex...
Multi Page Forms In PHP 5 May 2009 | 11:14 pm
Multi pages forms are just as they sound, a single form spread across multiple pages. These are useful in terms of usability as it can break up an otherwise dauntingly big form into smaller chunks. It...
