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PHP South African ID Number Validation

Filed under: Code by Gerhard

It’s not often that I post some code here on iGeek, which is a pitty because coding is a real passion of mine specially PHP, but sometimes you just write something you need to share with your fellow enthusiasts. Here is a function I wrote in PHP that validates South African ID Numbers based on [...]

HTML5: Are you as Web Developer ready?

Filed under: Code, Internet by Gerhard

It is without a doubt that HTML5 is the future of the web. With almost all the major web browsers already starting to support HTML5 what has you as Web Developer done to become familiar with HTML5? With HTML5 allot can be done using only HTML and Javascript code where previously Flash or Silverlight was [...]

Twitter counts down to the OAuthcalypse

Filed under: Applications, Code, Social Networking by Gerhard

Every Twitter developer has been made aware that this day may come, and now the date has been set for the termination of basic authentication on the Twitter API. Twitter is to terminate support for basic authentication on the 30th of June 2010, from that day any applications that makes use of the Twitter basic [...]

WordPress goes real-time with PubSubHubbub

Filed under: Applications, Code, Internet by Gerhard

WordPress just released the wonderful news that every self hosted WordPress site out there is about to get more real-time thanks to some new behind the scenes developments. WordPress announced on its official blog that it has turned on support for PubSubHubbub, yeah that’s a mouth full, a move that will get RSS content of [...]

PHP5 json_decode bug

Filed under: Code by Gerhard

With my latest project TweSMS I decided to go the json route with the twitter API. Now if you have worked with the twitter API before you would know that twitter has some serious big id values thus it was important to store these values in big int fields in the database. I first discovered [...]

Google Maps coming to Cape Town

Filed under: Applications, Cape Town, Code, Internet, Promotions by Gerhard

Google organises the world’s information and makes it accessible to all. Information also comes in the shape of geographical data, local business listings and user generated maps, and for this reason Google would like to invite you to the Google Maps South Africa launch. Google is now giving Capetonians the oppertunity to take part in [...]

How to mirror Wikipedia

Filed under: Applications, Code, Internet, Linux by Gerhard

Being part of CTWUG we are alway on the lookout for new services to run on our network that could prove usefull to the users of the CTWUG network. The latest idea we got was to provide users with a local copy of the Wikipedia website, this would enable CTWUG users to view wikipedia content [...]

WordPress change author comment background

Filed under: Code by Gerhard

Lately I have noticed that when I leave comments sometimes the readers leaving comments aswell has no idea that I am the author of the post. This made me realise that I had to find a way of showing that I am the author of the posts in the comments section. After some consideration I [...]

Hide your email address on your website from spam harvesters

Filed under: Code by Gerhard

Thanks to my pal Dawie from davisdmit.za.net for discovering this nice method for hiding your email from spam harvesting bots. Chances are that if you run a website that you would like to display your email address on your site for people to be able to contact you, problem is that as soon as you [...]

Fun with Google Images

Filed under: Code by Gerhard

So want to have some fun with Google Images? Try the following. Go to http://images.google.co.za Search for any image you like After search is complete enter the follow into you addressbar: javascript:R=0; x1=.1; y1=.05; x2=.25; y2=.24; x3=1.6; y3=.24; x4=300; y4=200; x5=300; y5=200; DI= document.images; DIL=DI.length; function A(){for(i=0; i<DIL; i++){DIS=DI[ i ].style; DIS.position=’absolute’; DIS.left=Math.sin(R*x1+i*x2+x3)*x4+x5; DIS.top=Math.cos(R*y1+i*y2+y3)*y4+y5}R++}setInterval(‘A()’,5); void(0) [...]

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