Category Archives: Web

All things world wide web, including web applications, vulnerabilities, mark up and various tidbits .

Jump In! Camp

Posted on March 13, 2010 by Chris

I’ve been invited alongside two fellow phpBB developers to attend Microsoft’s Jump In! Developers’ Campnext month in Switzerland to learn about interoperability between Microsoft’s software stacks and PHP applications. For more information on how to attend this event read on … Continue reading →

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One Down

Posted on February 18, 2010 by Chris

Well one of my gripes with Ubuntu 9.10 ‘Karmic Koala’ has been cured at least, Firebug 1.5 now works after upgrades to Firefox 3.5.8. Shame that I’ve found out my bash completion is broken.

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phpBB Hook to remove success messages

Posted on February 16, 2010 by Chris

Time for another phpBB hook, this time the aim is to remove the messages which irritate some people when a post has been made and instead redirect the user immediately to the default choice. A few considerations had to be … Continue reading →

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N900 Sharing

Posted on February 6, 2010 by Chris

Since my earlier post about sharing photos from the N900 I have discovered Pixelpipe, which includes support for Gallery2 uploads as part of a huge array of supported services. You can read more about Pixelpipe and the N900 here and … Continue reading →

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Sharing photos from N900 to Gallery2

Posted on February 1, 2010 by Chris

I recently treated myself to a new mobile phonecomputer, so I bought a Nokia N900 which eXpansys eventually shipped to me. Now to the point, you can easily share content to Facebook, Ovi, and Flickr but I maintain my own … Continue reading →

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PHP function: is_serialized()

Posted on October 23, 2009 by Chris

I needed a way to detect if some values were serialized or not, annoyingly PHP does not provide a method for this. I’d also rather not perform unserialize() on everything to check for a serialized string in the name of … Continue reading →

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Vacuum Firefox on Ubuntu

Posted on October 15, 2009 by Chris

It was suggested to me to use vacuum places to improve my Firefox awesome bar performance, as I’m still using Firefox 3.0 which is packaged with Jaunty; I do have 3.5 installed I just use it for testing sites at … Continue reading →

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Another phpBB Hook

Posted on April 5, 2009 by Chris

Further to my entry last month about a phpBB Hook to disable the post queue for certain users, I’ve written a really quick one to enable phpBB’s debugging mode for founder users. Debug mode is usually enabled by using the … Continue reading →

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phpBB Post Queue

Posted on March 15, 2009 by Chris

In phpBB 3.0.3 we added the possibility to queue posts of users who had a post count lower than an administrator defined threshold, this works very well at keeping spam out of the public eye on your board. But on … Continue reading →

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Firefox 3.0 Address Tweak for SSL/TLS

Posted on March 11, 2009 by Chris

Since Firefox 3 scrapped the yellow address bar for SSL and TLS secured sites (i.e. https) and displays a nice green box for EV certificates I was hinted at a way to get a similar visual for non-EV certificates. You … Continue reading →

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