February 2005

Thursday is for slacking

February 23, 2005

At the top of each PHP file in IP.Dynamic I’ve added the date I started writing that file. I figured that it’d serve as a reminder of when the file was written and be handy when it comes to maintaining and updating the files. I can’t rely of the ctime and mtime values in the [...]

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Regex is fun

February 22, 2005

During the writing of the cache class for IP.Dynamic, I hit a bit of a snag and had to regex my way out of it. The finished regex is this: #(?!{)((?:\$[\w\_\-]+?)\[(?:["'])(?:[\w\.\_\-'"\[\]].*)(?:["'])\])($|\s|;|<|\.|\+|\))(?!})# (Wrapped onto two lines to prevent it breaking the layout). Should be pretty obvious what it does.

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Band of Brothers

February 22, 2005

I have a keen interest in World War II. I don’t know why I do and I don’t know where it came from. Maybe it’s the sheer scale of it and the thousands of stories that have been told that drew me in. For me, one of the stand-out stories of WWII was the story [...]

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Time really does fly

February 14, 2005

Has it really been three years since Charles and I started up Invision Power Services? It seems incredible that it was so long ago and that it seems like only yesterday. It’s a testament to the hard work of everyone thats ever been involved with Invision Power Services that we’ve come so far and achieved [...]

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I’m a mactard

February 3, 2005

I came across a webpage so shockingly stupid, I wasn’t sure whether is was a parody or just an inaccurate review. Parts of it were outright parody and others were echoing comments I’d read elsewhere around the ‘net. Regardless, I had to comment on it. I like Macs, I use Macs daily and they suit [...]

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