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> <channel><title>Tinsology &#187; My Thoughts and Rants</title> <atom:link href="http://tinsology.net/category/my-thoughts-and-rants/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://tinsology.net</link> <description>Searching for the Right Questions</description> <lastBuildDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:57:44 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1</generator> <item><title>New Theme!</title><link>http://tinsology.net/2011/07/new-theme/</link> <comments>http://tinsology.net/2011/07/new-theme/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 22:32:20 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Tinsley</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[My Thoughts and Rants]]></category> <category><![CDATA[WordPress]]></category> <category><![CDATA[theme]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://tinsology.net/?p=1692</guid> <description><![CDATA[I finally got around to creating a custom theme to replace the old off the shelf one. It&#8217;s a modification of the default twentyeleven theme. Feel free to post any comments, criticisms or bug reports.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://tinsology.net/2011/07/new-theme/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>PHP Donts</title><link>http://tinsology.net/2011/07/php-donts/</link> <comments>http://tinsology.net/2011/07/php-donts/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 03 Jul 2011 09:56:09 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Tinsley</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[My Thoughts and Rants]]></category> <category><![CDATA[PHP]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://tinsology.net/?p=1645</guid> <description><![CDATA[The following is a non-comprehensive list (in no particular order) of things I often see people doing while using PHP that they probably shouldn&#8217;t. The purpose of this list is to inform; hopefully it will shed some light on what &#8230; <a
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isPermaLink="false">http://tinsology.net/?p=1650</guid> <description><![CDATA[In the aftermath of Amazon&#8217;s decision to drop California residents from their affiliate program I found some interesting discussion on the Associates board. Basically the poster is asking if anyone knows of any charities that California residents can swap their &#8230; <a
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isPermaLink="false">http://tinsology.net/?p=1279</guid> <description><![CDATA[Lately whenever I see discussion regarding SHA1 in the context of password hashing or user management it usually involves someone claiming that SHA1 has been 'cracked' or is otherwise not viable as a hashing algorithm. I think there is some degree of truth to these claims. In spite of this however, I think that many of these conclusions are based on a misinterpretation of the evidence.
Before I explain <a
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isPermaLink="false">http://tinsology.net/?p=1185</guid> <description><![CDATA[I noticed an article today on CNN called  <a
title="CNN" href="http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/innovation/08/20/super.passwords/index.html">How to create a 'super password'</a>. For those of you who don't feel like reading the article, it is basically about how researchers at Georgia Tech are able to brute force 8-character passwords in less than a couple of hours, using "clusters of graphics cards". This is nothing new; graphics cards are being used for all sorts of applications other <a
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isPermaLink="false">http://tinsology.net/?p=1179</guid> <description><![CDATA[Every now and then I discover something that makes me feel like I've been doing things the hard way. The feeling is an interesting combination of excitement and embarrassment. I experienced this today while browsing PHP documentation. I discovered two function that will make my life a lot easier in the future: <a
href="http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.debug-backtrace.php">debug_backtrace</a> and <a
href="http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.debug-print-backtrace.php">debug_print_backtrace</a>. As someone who has written his fair share of Java, I'm very accustomed <a
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isPermaLink="false">http://tinsology.net/?p=1155</guid> <description><![CDATA[<h4>Creating Threads</h4> <strong>Searching</strong> When a rational person has a question or a topic to discuss on a forum that person might think "Maybe I should use the search feature to see if a thread regarding my topic already exists!". This is generally a waste of time, however. The probability of two people on a forum consisting of thousands of members over the span of several years having the <a
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isPermaLink="false">http://tinsology.net/?p=1113</guid> <description><![CDATA[I have been using various shared hosting providers for several years now. In that time I have never renewed a hosting plan with any single provider; instead moving from one to another for various reasons. Before I go any further let me describe my needs with regard to hosting:<ol><li>Obviously one of my needs is to host this blog. I don't get a huge amount of visitors (150</li></ol> <a
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isPermaLink="false">http://tinsology.net/?p=1099</guid> <description><![CDATA[The lack of function overloading is one of my biggest complaints about PHP. If you're not familiar with overloading, its a feature of some languages that allows you to defined multiple methods (or functions) with the same name, but taking different paramenters. In Java, for instance, methods are not identified solely by their name. Instead, functions are distinguished by their signature: their name, return type, number of parameters and their <a
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isPermaLink="false">http://tinsology.net/?p=1077</guid> <description><![CDATA[I have an old single core laptop that doesn't get a whole lot of use anymore, partially because it is dated (purchased in 2006) and partially I've never really adapted to using a laptop as a general purpose computer. Increasingly, however, I find myself in need of a laptop either when I want to get some work done when I'm away from home, or when I need to take my <a
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isPermaLink="false">http://tinsology.net/?p=1041</guid> <description><![CDATA[Traditionally, when someone is introduced to programming, the first block of code they write is the infamous "Hello World" program. Unless you're dealing with some esoteric language this program usually consists of just a few or even a single line. There is one popular language out there where, in comparison, Hello World is a monster: Java. If you're a Java coder you may not see it, especially if Java wasn't your first language. Try to look at it from the perspective of a first timer: <a
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isPermaLink="false">http://tinsology.net/?p=856</guid> <description><![CDATA[Anyone who has ever had an email account is probably very familiar with the "Do not reply" email. They can take the form of notifications from your bank, reminders to pay a bill, a newsletter, or just plain spam. Generally the read a little something like:
<em>Please do not reply to this email. This mailbox is not monitored and you will not
receive a response.</em> Usually this is <a
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isPermaLink="false">http://tinsology.net/?p=711</guid> <description><![CDATA[After hearing some noise about Google having updated page rank, I got curious and decided to check the PR of this site. I launched this site shortly before the last update, when it was assigned the rank of zero. This time around, to my surprise, I found that the index, as well as one other page was ranked 4. This was surprising because I have not made any deliberate effort <a
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isPermaLink="false">http://tinsology.net/?p=669</guid> <description><![CDATA[Roughly a month ago I started serving Kontera, in-text, ads. Based on a month of use here are my impressions of the platform: <a
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isPermaLink="false">http://tinsology.net/?p=644</guid> <description><![CDATA[Yesterday I read some comments by someone who was upset that Widgetbox modified their policy to prevent the inclusion of ads in the widgets submitted to their directory. The author claimed that this change in policy was uncalled for. All of the ads he inserted into his widgets were easily removable. People were getting these widgets for free so it should be his right to insert his own ads into them, right? <a
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