technology & software development blog by matt geri
January 31st, 2009
I picked this one up from Stii’s blog. Ever wondered how to pronounce Linux? Well here we go…
I used to pronounce it like Linus does in the video but after time I started pronouncing it “line-ux” because so many other people pronounced it that way. Oh well, time to start getting out of that old [...]
January 28th, 2009
Just a quick note to let fellow coders know that I have joined GitHub and you should follow me I haven’t put up any code yet but I have a few projects that are in desperate need of finishing and they will definitely go up once I have the final release versions done. [...]
January 27th, 2009
I was tasked with the job of writing a small PHP script today that detects whether a search engine spider is crawling a page of your site. There are a few ways to go about it. The challenging thing about the script is that there are so many spiders on the web. The script I [...]
January 26th, 2009
Today I realized that I really cant keep up with the number of blogs I want to read on a daily basis anymore and I started using a feed reader again. I have tried both Google Reader and Bloglines in the past and this time around I decided to stick with Google Reader.
For a developer [...]
January 26th, 2009
After I was without internet due to crappy Telkom (customer) service a few weeks back I decided to go looking for a new ISP. In South Africa we have a ton of different companies offering ADSL bandwidth but the funny thing is that they are mostly all running off the same backbone! So basically when [...]
January 25th, 2009
As I fully expected, my blogging journey so far this year has been full of new learning experiences. Mostly good experiences and some challenging ones. Something I wanted to touch on today is what having a “personal” blog means and why you should have one.
I have done a lot of thinking about my blog and [...]
January 22nd, 2009
I got totally owned today by the extremely crappy UNISA credit card payment form. Today was the last day that I could register for my second year Bsc (actually a mixture of 1st and 2nd year modules) and it was also the last day that you could pay for your studies.
So to make a long [...]
January 20th, 2009
While my internet was capped over the past weekend I did a bunch of surfing on local websites and found some pretty cool sites. Along with the sites I also stumbled upon a bunch of local FTP sites which give you download access to all the latest linux distributions, free software, games and lots more. [...]
January 19th, 2009
Pagination is a simple concept that can be executed in very many different ways. In some ways pagination is one of the most crucial parts of a website. It breaks your content up and helps visitors navigate your website easily. If it weren’t for pagination our blogs would probably be one very long page and [...]
January 18th, 2009
My weekend started off really crap as our first Telkom ADSL account got capped and the second decided to stop working. After hours of debugging and trying to get the account to work, nothing worked. The same thing Saturday and finally today we had a break through and found out that it is an issue [...]
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