Archives for October 2006

Wikipedia links in the last post

30 October 2006 | Jargon | No Responses

In an effort to help explain the technical post son this site with as little difficulty as possible, I’ve started linking terms to Wikipedia. To do this I added a little WordPress plugin to the old my-hacks.php file.

This adds support so that typing any topic between <wiki> tags will automatically create a link to the desired Wikipedia article.

The code follows below:

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Planning to checksum in PHP?

30 October 2006 | PHP | No Responses

I am rewriting NINJA to use the block scanning part of the rsync algorithm for binary differences, so I needed to figure out which checksum would be fastest to achieve in PHP. rsync normally calls for Adler-32, but any checksum algorithm should work fine.

Below are the results of several checksum/hash algorithms in PHP. Clearly, PHP’s native crc32() function is the fastest of the group:

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Making AjaxWp and Lightbox play nice

6 October 2006 | Jargon, PHP | No Responses

You may have noticed this entire site is now AJAX based. That wasn’t easy to pull off, but finding AjaxWp helped a lot.

Contrary to what the top of the page suggested, AjaxWp did not work with my Lightbox 2.0 install at all. Thinking perhaps 2.0 wasn’t supported, I tried 1.0. That didn’t work either.

It took me about three hours of fiddling with FireBug’s DOM inspector, but eventually I realized two things:

  1. Lightbox was not accessible to new content coming in from an AJAX load.
  2. When Lightbox was accessible, all navigation links within the lightbox were being arrested by AjaxWp.

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The Game

1 October 2006 | Random | 11 Responses

I just lost :(

This is the first time I’ve lost since I started playing in 2001.