Mike van Riel

Mike van Riel

  • Generating passwords in PHP

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    There are those things you encounter again and again and again. Generating passwords is one of those. My experience is that whenever an application needs to be created which deals with user account creation, it is best to let my application create a password for the user. Why? Simply, I am lazy. Good developers and…

  • My current affairs

    My current affairs

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    I have neglected some of my contacts and social places. Although I would like to blaim my busy life for it, it is also a matter of just not making time for it. So to entertain myself and others, I can share that one of the things I am working on is a redesign of…

  • Moving to a new host

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    What I want is not what I can get at my old host. Thus in order to do get what I want I have decided to move my domains to a new webhost. I have requested the move to be done monday the 22nd of december at 22.00 hours. I still need to get confirmation…

  • Spam has left the building … finally

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    I have done it, on the 29th of November I finally activated Akismet and begun cleaning up spam which was still remaining on my blog. Today, I took the time and the liberty to remove the last spam comments AND write a new (perhaps for some quite uninteresting) blog post. When I started my blog…

  • Spam part II

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    For some reason I seem to have become popular with the spam bots. Not quite the crowd I was hoping for 🙂 It is not possible for me to keep deleting all spam until I have time to implement anti-spam measures. It is on my to-do list but other (more pressing) matters have priority. Should…

  • The first spam battle, I lost..

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    I have had a spam run in the last couple of days and was forced to delete a couple of hundred spam messages. Despite the fact that I was reviewing every message if it was a valid comment or not (I unfortunately do not get many at the moment) it seems that I have overlooked…

  • PHPWomen Article contest has closed

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    The PHPWomen contest has closed. As I had said earlier I have also participated in the contest. I restrained from posting the articles on my blog because it feels unfair to the community at PHPWomen. In hindsight it would have been convenient if I posted a new blog item whenever I posted a new article.…

  • Sometimes I temporarily get a life

    Sometimes I temporarily get a life

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    There are times when I do not touch a computer, it happens. I like to tabletop roleplay for example and I ‘own’ a dog called Fenna who loves to be active. At these sort of times one might be tempted to say that I temporarily get a life. My wife suggested today to visit a…

  • phpWomen contest close to an end

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    Tomorrow will be the last day to participate in the phpWomen contest at www.phpwomen.org. For those of you who do not know, phpWomen is a great initiative to bind the girls of the trade together in a sort of community or usergroup. It has received quite a bit of attention lately and in my opinion…

  • Kubuntu and a slow Eclipse

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    You know you want to do it, the move, from windows to Linux when developing locally. It works like a charm, except for Eclipse when you do not pay attention. One could wonder, why do you want to develop locally? Well, sometimes (twice a day) I travel by train. And sitting still is very hard…