I have built quite a few directory systems in my years as a web developer and one thing that has always annoyed me is building letter filters to return results depending on the first letter of a title.
Normally I would waste a lot of time actually typing out the entire alphabet string:
$alphabet = ‘abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz’;
which can [...]
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As with any Wordpress Blog and pretty much any other blog or news website projectroon.co.uk has an RSS Feed and if you look closely at the source of this RSS feed you may notice a new element
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What is this? Well currently most Feed Aggregators will poll selected RSS feeds and check if there are any [...]
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In my humble little opinion the original intention of the web was to be a worldwide free medium to share documents and discuss idea. So far this ideal has been somewhat achieved but there is something that is threatening the ideal.
I have recently stopped following some blogs and websites, not because I find their content [...]
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Tom Watson MP, minister for digital engagement, said open source software would be on a level playing field with proprietary software such as Windows.
Open source software will be adopted “when it delivers best value for money”, the government said.
It added that public services should where possible avoid being “locked into proprietary software”.
It is [...]
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This site has always been hosted on shared hosting, along with a few other blogs I maintain for friends (On The Wrong Planet and Darth McCarth to name a couple…). Even while I was freelancing I have always used shared hosting as it has always been perfect for my needs However the popularity of this [...]
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BMW is looking pioneer a move away from proprietary systems used for in-car entertainment systems, allowing developers to build plug and play applications especially for their cars. This could be extremely good news for the open source community and another ‘notch in the bed post’ in the fight against closed source systems.
When a manufacturer or [...]
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Many of you here are either involved with the marketing of a web site for another company or operate a web site or blog of your own. For either case, being able to immediately see if a page is cached by Google would be invaluable. That’s exactly what the Google Cache Checker extension [...]
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Automatic censorship of audio data for broadcast by Microsoft
An input audio data stream comprising speech is processed by an automatic censoring filter in either a real-time mode, or a batch mode, producing censored speech that has been altered so that undesired words or phrases [...]
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The EU have been pushing for more stringent regulation of Internet content for quite a while, however Lord Currie, the Head of Ofcom, has hatched an ingenious plan to combat growing numbers of unemployment. Internet regulation could possibly create thousands of jobs, as the Register have pointed out:
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The Reg took up the challenge and with [...]
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I am quite sure that you have all done something similar to me; had a few drinks, then sent a text message or email whilst not quite ‘mentally balanced’. Most of the time these drunken messages result in nothing more than a slightly red face. Very occasionally something that may have seemed like an infallible [...]
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