December 2011
1 post
RT @cycloneupdate: The monsoon trough is forecast to return to Northern Australia from next week. Get ready for the tropical wet season.
May 2010
2 posts
RT @JustinReid: Gmail Now Lets You Drag and Drop Images Into Emails - http://bit.ly/90yCLR
RT @stinhambo: I stick my middle finger up in regards to the Australian mandatory internet filter -
http://bit.ly/c9Tjmu
October 2009
3 posts
Squarespace
I’ve been playing with Squarespace, it’s quite nice (a hosted cms targeted at pro’s, not your aunt kate). As a test, I was able to re-create my personal site in 20 minutes.
No intention of using it for real, but maybe next time I create a new site.
I uploaded a few screenshot of the CMS back end (see posts on october 11, 2009): http://shrt.tw/u/abhibeckert
Google Wave, a revolution in discussions?
At my work environment, I have five ways to discuss a topic:
Face to face conversations
Instant Message
Email
Issue tracker/job website
Wiki
Aside from the general problem of deciding which system to use for a particular discussion, each of these has their own flaws.
Face to face conversations are very nice, but they don’t allow you to do anything else, which means everyone involved...
September 2009
6 posts
Bug of the day
public function getIdconsultantForLoggedInUser()
{
$user = Auth::loggedInUser();
if($user)
return 7;
return 0;
}
Yesterday I finalized our API for sending SMS messages. It’s a simple on-line function, with a few config settings, and does data sanitisaion and all that for you.
We have two drivers (for now), one for debugging (saves message to session and provides a page to view the log), and another driver for http://mbox.com.au, which works quite well for sending to Australian phones.
I’ve created my API to save sessions:
// creates a file with a random name in a tmp dir, and writes
// $_SESSION and an expiry timestamp (10 seconds)
$key = Session::saveSessionToKey();
// redirect visitor to a url which doesn't share the session
// id cookie here
// reads the file, and if it hasn't expired loads the saved
// data into the current session. also deletes all expired
// files...
I have been battling with a way to transfer a visitor’s session when cookies are lost, without creating a security hole (for example, if ssl is on a different domain name or SWFUpload is used for a privilliged upload).
It looks like the only option is to transfer the data to a new session id, not re-use the id.
I’ve been playing with Haiku this morning, it’s really nice… but not finished yet.