Today I read Salted Password Hashing – Doing it Right which was a good run-down on how to do password hashing. The article linked to phpass: Portable PHP password hashing framework which is a library for hashing passwords.
I was trying to run ‘pear’ but I accidentally typed ‘pair’ and got command not found even though I knew ‘php-pear’ was installed. Traps for young players! I bet I’m not the last person to make that mistake…
Today I read What is PEAR? — it talks about PEAR (PHP Extension and Application Repository) and its relationship to PECL (PHP Extension Community Library).
The pretty printing for my *.cs-script files (which are C# files) in ViewVC was really ugly and wrong. I needed to configure the MIME type for *.cs-script files. I edited the mimetypes.conf file and added:
text/x-csharp cs-script
Read C Pointers Fundamentals Explained with Examples today to brush up on my rusty C skills.
Found out about this handy utility the other day: ScreenFly.
It allows you to test your website on various device form-factors. Handy!
Today I had to look up the CSS syntax for curved corners and I found this article which suggested:
#example1 {
-moz-border-radius: 15px;
border-radius: 15px;
}
Today I found this discussion which showed how to align a table in the center of the page in HTML:
table {
width: 50%;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
}
or:
table {
width: 200px;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
}
Found myself reading about values, variables, and literals in JavaScript.
Found myself looking up the syntax of the Array splice method.