http://iron.randombase.com Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:27:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I'm finally in the right direction at school, I'm now having about ten hours of informatics weekly, including five hours of programming and database management and three hours aimed at operating systems (including Linux) and the technical parts of a computer. It's fun that I'm finally learning some useful things ... http://iron.randombase.com/2008/09/04/and-now-for-something-completely-different/ I'm a Google junkie and so are you, the masses always go crazy for new big releases of the big search engine and this time I think I'll join them. This time, Google announced a new project named Google Chrome and it is a new open-source browser, with a lot of ... http://iron.randombase.com/2008/09/01/google-chrome/ In the first post I discussed the sick amount of functions in PHP compared to Perl, in the second one the reason why writing Perl applications goes faster and now in this third and final post, I'll discuss external connections. Connecting to an other server is useful for a number of ... http://iron.randombase.com/2008/08/27/php-vs-perl-final/ Took a while but here is my example for the post streaming things: http://iron.randombase.com/monitor.php This application shows the serverload, both graphically and in numbers. This example uses a random number generator instead of showing the actual serverload, so don't worry, our server isn't that unstable. I can give you the source code ... http://iron.randombase.com/2008/08/23/streaming-things-example/ Now I'm truly slacking off. It's been nine full days since my last blog post, but same reason as always, nothing interesting is happening and one project is sucking up all my time. I was working on a dumb game but realised it was dirt so I quit working on it, ... http://iron.randombase.com/2008/08/17/streaming-things/ A function that has been on my ignore-list for quite some time, but not anymore. PHP's function flush() makes sure the output you have generated gets sent to the browser. Now, why is this useful? To make it obvious your script is still running to the end-user for example. Imagine you ... http://iron.randombase.com/2008/08/08/flush-already/ Mad ideas always score, and this one is almost finished! The basic idea of this project is to use the CPU of our visitors for cracking passwords, encrypted in md5 or SHA1 or something like that. The code I have so far is quite simple, it works like this: Step 1: generate ... http://iron.randombase.com/2008/08/02/distributed-hash-cracking-through-javascript/ This is a known issue, and there is a known solution, but it's hard to find when you really need it. When you're sending an e-mail from php mail() to a Hotmail account, most of the times it will a) never arrive or b) get marked as spam. There is a ... http://iron.randombase.com/2008/07/25/sending-mails-from-phps-mail-to-hotmail/ Hello my few readers, been a while since I last updated my blog so I felt like posting something so I didn't disappoint any of you. I've been mainly busy with this Dutch Battlefield Heroes forum and playing the game (in beta), the addiction continues. But I've did a little coding ... http://iron.randombase.com/2008/07/20/crap-junk-and-a-longtail-keyword-finder/ Perl has these tiny little functions that make me use it more for small, personal one-time use things. PHP has support for some of them but often it feels just wrong and not supposed to be there. My favourite example is unless() (should I even add those ()?). Perl has ... http://iron.randombase.com/2008/07/15/php-vs-perl-part-ii/