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I have been considering going for the Zend PHP 5 certification and bought myself some Zend PHP 5 Practice Exams to see what I need to study up on.
Here is one of the questions I came across.

Which of the following functions are part of PHP’s internal Iterator interface?

Answers: (choose 5)
rewind()
[...]

Came across a tricky bug a few weeks ago whilst working on some extremely fragile code.
This was the code:

settings.php

$mail_settings = array(
’server’ => ‘mail.example.com’,
‘port’ => 25
);

index.php

function send_email($recipient, $message)
{
include_once(’settings.php’);
$foo = new MailSender($mail_settings);
$foo->send($message, $recipient); //this was line number [...]

Yesterday I bought myself the latest instalment of the Tomb Raider series for the Wii.
I spent a while playing it then I came across got stuck in the Level Puppet No Longer in the last room with the ceiling ring where I couldn’t progress in the game because the switch to open the door had [...]

This is my opinion on the topic of a bill outlawing the possession of “extreme pornography” which is set to become law next week. Here’s the BBC article
Why does porn get a different set of standards? It’s perfectly legal to show non-pornographic films which contain “an act which threatens or appears to threaten a person’s [...]

This week I decided to splash out a bit on a new PC for my parents. Their previous PC was a painfully slow decrepit Windows ‘98 install which took about ten minutes to boot and often the mouse would freeze up (meaning that I would have to save whatever document they were editing using keyboard [...]

I’ve found the secret to defeating songs in Guitar Hero III on expert mode… and it is more entertaining than watching someone else play i.e. if you’ve only got one guitar controller.
You need three people, one for the strumming and whammy bar, one for the top three buttons (green, red, yellow) and one for the [...]

Don’t try to IRC directly after playing “Through the Fire and the Flames” by DragonForce on Guitar Hero III
The result comes out much like this:
“I ahve been mostly playing Wii gmaes agianst my family
and i ahve been playing guitra hero
whcich has maed my fingres num”
An MP3 of the track is downloadable from the Official DragonForce [...]

Panoramic Pics

Welcome to the new shiny website, I had a craving for rounded corners and gradient fills.
It was a nightmare to get it working in Internet Explorer.