Adventures with Computers
The speed of which PHP Weather fetched the METARs
was quite poor. But then Enrico Lodolo
suggested that I used HTTP instead of FTP to connect to the server.
So, go get the new version. You could also try my page, which should load significantly faster now.
Today I started in school again, after a summer-holiday that lasted about
two months. It’s going to be a bit hard to get used to be in a classroom
for perhaps eight hours a day. But this year I wont have to have anymore
German, and instead I’ve got Computer Science. I really don’t know what to
expect of it. Perhaps we’ll learn a lot of exciting things (I hope that),
or perhaps we’ll just be bored. But then at least we’ll have four easy
lessons a week. So basically its a win-win situation :-)
You can now use quotes in you postings in my guestbook! And if you write
something like http://mgeisler.net/ or [email protected] it will
automatically be turned into real links. (This isn’t my guestbook, so
there are no links here :-)
All this magic is done with regular expressions (regexp). You can take a look at the source of the page if you want to see the expressions themselves. But beware, they are pretty complicated. Maybe I should write a small tutorial on regexps.
Take a look at my new guestbook. Here you have the chance of telling me
and others what you think of gimpster.com. Until I make a tool for deleting
your posts, the word is all yours :-)
Just remember that you can’t use any quotes. Both single-quotes (’) and
double-quotes (”) will be escaped. Also, any HTMl-tags other that
<b>, <i> and <a> will be stripped.
I’ve just updated my tutorial on PHP. I tried to explain some parts better, and made a proper ending.