PHP Coding standards
For more than a year, some influent PHP programmers of the most active of the most active projects in the community have been working on coding standards. T...
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Reducing the load of all those social plugins
Some javascript libraries are big and they pose a stress on the browser when they are loaded all at the same time. Most of these libraries suggest to load t...
Is the online ad industry a fraud?
As highligthed by MacLeans, the Advertising Research Foundation did an experiment showing that: A blank banner ad received more clicks than the average Face...
Solving complex network problems using… fungus
Here is a part of a documentary on decay that aired on BBC. The part I am talking about is at 1:03:45 and demonstrates a slime mold searching for its food, ...
Generate a random string of non-ambiguous numbers and letters.
I needed to generate a unique code, suitable for URLs and somewhat short so it doesn’t scare the user. Doing md5(microtime()) is nice but it is 32 chars lon...