- My Name is Tom, or Errant. I write about geeky things, politics, and life in general and politic. My current day job is in computer security but I have been known to program in my spare time.
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Category Archives: code
Lesson Learned
Adblockers take a “dumb” approach… I was just sat here wondering why an image stored in /content/banners/ would not display on my web page, but wiould show perfectly in /content/. Huh? Till it dawned on me that the banners bit … Continue reading
Xtags demo!
A quick Xtags demo has been released! The current (very buggy) version supports Markdown, BBcode, Geshi and smileys parsing. The smileys look pretty cool! Geshi was very hard to integrate – and I am still not happy with it. Once … Continue reading
Xtags: A preview
A quick note before bed! I’ve been working on my Xpress module for Kohana (Xsetting,Xtheme,Xgrid,Xtags,Xtools and more); tonight I put together Xtags, which is a tag parsing system. The intention is to support all sorts of text formatting: from full … Continue reading
Xsettings: Database settings manager for Kohana
I started work today on Xsettings for Kohana PHP framework. I like the Kohana config method (in terms of file layout) but I always like to have the option to store settings in a database as well. My reasoning behind … Continue reading
My Laptop keeps crashing
…which is incredibly annoying because I am trying to do work On the positive side I just installed Launchy on it – a friend of mine introduced me to this cool little app ages back but I’ve only recently started using … Continue reading
I hate Perl
It’s such a sucky language! I’ve been hacking at it today to try and extract an image name from some html. To do it you can use split() to parse it to a list and then test the list for … Continue reading
No Appreciation: Take 1
I was hungover yesterday – which is always a good time for me to come up with shit. The thinking is this: as a programmer I know we get a really bad deal compared to “designers”. Take the web as … Continue reading