Found myself looking up the MySQL IF Syntax.
MySQL IF syntax
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Daily Archives: 2012-03-20 [Tuesday]
Chatting with Key about Angry Orange
Was chatting with Key about Angry Orange. I don’t think orange makes anyone angry.
WordPress post email notifications
Was looking for how to get WordPress to send email about new posts and found Post Notification a WordPress plugin that claims to do just that. Haven’t installed it yet.
Base 36 encoding and radix economy
Reading about Base 36 encoding and Radix economy.
The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets
Bumped into this old article by Joel Spolsky: The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!).
IDN homograph attacks and confusable characters
Today I read about IDN homograph attacks. Basically it’s where Unicode characters that look like ASCII characters are put into a link so the link seems to go to a genuine/trusted site. In related news I found a list of confusable characters via stackoverflow. Also found a list of confusable symbols.
Punycode
Today I learned about Punycode, which is a system for reversibly encoding Unicode in ASCII.
PHP Number Base Conversion
I was doing some research into base conversion and so far have found a function, dec2base, which looks like it might come in handy. There’s an online demo of the function.
New bcmod JavaScript function at jsphp.co
I was working on some code the other evening and found myself needing a version of PHP’s bcmod function in JavaScript. It wasn’t already available at jsphp.co so I implemented it and posted about it to the ProgClub programming list.