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Dialing Phone Numbers from a Webpage

Jan 19, 2009 mobile

I’ve recently been investigating making some better mobile accessible pages for some of my projects. I’ve seen pages that allow you to dial a phone number directly from the webpage - so I thought I’d investigate…

PHP.ini creator

Jan 17, 2009 php

While listening to someone complain through twitter about their MySQL conf file, I came up with a cool idea: what if I created a PHP.ini creator that would suggest changes to your php.ini file as well as generate an updated version?

PHP and the UUID

Jan 14, 2009 php

I’ve been thinking more and more about having unique ID’s - especially with working with larger datasets - and I thought it was high time that I investigated the UUID.

Localized dates in php

Jan 7, 2009 php

The PHP Date manual page has a ton of interesting features to format the date that you can display to the user. However, when you look closer at it, there are actually some really useful modifiers that will help us with our date calculations as well.

Eclipse PDT - Include Paths

Dec 28, 2008 eclipse-pdt

When troubleshooting a different problem the other day, I re-entered the world of eclipse include paths. For those of you who are not familiar, the eclipse include path is located as the last option of a eclipse PDT PHP project.

How custom passphrases/pictures still don't protect against phishing

Nov 20, 2008 security

As you probably remember, I have lots of interest in phishing techniques (I talked about one here, and preventing them here). I’ve noticed a new trend: a dual stage login form with a custom picture or passphrase. Users are to gain trust in the login page because their custom configured option is displayed. The more I started thinking about this, however, I kept seeing an issue - this still can be easily phished!