(Don’t) Give up on Vista

Hilarious !

LEGO instruction-sets

Did you play with LEGO when you were a kid - well, I did.
Recently we took the big box full of LEGO out of the attic and we had lots of fun with it. However - I noticed that some of the instruction-sets where missing and was reminded that some of them got lost due [...]

Assinging a permanent drive letter to an external USB drive

To have my external backup USB drive always use the same drive letter I used these instructions found in Knowledge Base of SyncBack - the backup software I use.

Web 2.0 Generators

Building a so-called “Web 2.0″ application ?
Then you definitely need:

Rounded Corners
Ajax Loading Indicators
“Web 2.0″-style with Beta tag (no generator yet)

If you know of any other generators please let me know.

Query string in rewrite rules

Using more and more rewrite_rules to clean up the URL mess in applications I was wondering how to rewrite an URL like:
/item/view/123?debug=1
to
/index.php?objecttype=item&id=123&debug
My latest approach was to use:
RewriteRule ^([a-z]*)/([0-9]*)$ /index.php?objecttype=$1&id=$2
which unfortunately would ignore the debug parameter.
After looking through the manual again I found the QSA (query string append) option. So now my rule now looks like [...]

Statistic graphs with PHP and Flash

If you need to display really nice statistics to your users and are a friend of eye candy have a look at the PHP/SWF Charts module.
Using this library it took me less than one hour to set up a graph like this:

PS: From all I can see WordPress.com is using this library in the admin [...]

International PHP Conference 2006

Earlier this week I have been at the International PHP Conference 2006 in Frankfurt. I attended these sessions:

XSL and how to use it with PHP5 (Arne Blankerts)
Designing & Implementing RESTful Web Services (Ben Ramsey)
RAD 2.0 - Working with Symfony (Dustin Whittle)
Service Component Architecture (SCA) for PHP (Matthew Peters)
The PHP OO Candy Store (Tobias Schlitt, Kore [...]

PC vs. Mac

Apple has a funny series of ads comparing PCs and Macs.

My Yahoo! with problems

My Yahoo! says all of my RSS subscriptions have no items available. We all know this is not true. Unfortunately - every time I report the problem to Yahoo Support - the problems disappears before I get answer.
And guess what the answer is: “Everything is working fine now - I cannot see any problems”.
Hah - [...]

Crazy Egg

Since some of the top-notch people mentioned CrazyEgg and because one can’t have enough information about a website I signed up for a test account.
So far I am really impressed about the simplicity and the way how they present the results.