Neil Pie

Month: January 2010

  • Germany government warns against Internet Explorer

    You may have seen these stories in the news recently, relating to some attacks on Google, the German Government and Internewt Explorer. The original news item The subsequent reaction I’ve tried as hard as I can to come up with something useful to say on the subject, but the only thing I keep coming up…

  • Finding the RSS Feeds of your Facebook Status Updates

    Edit:As of recent changes (7/2/2010) to FB, this is no longer working for me. You might have better luck. Why don’t facebook just make this stuff available? Edit: This method has worked for my account and several others, but fails for some people. If you are greeted with the message “This feed URL is no…

  • Limiting the number of times a PHP loop will run using the break command

    If you’re reading this page then you’re already likely familiar with the standard PHP for, while and foreach loops. If not, then may I suggest some background reading first – http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.control-structures.php. That said, I added a new weapon to my PHP arsenal today in the form of a better understanding of the break command. I’ve…

  • Good habits for password security

    We all have it drummed into us to use different passwords for everything, but how many of us actually do? and how many of those use more than 2 or 3 passwords over and over again? If you ask yourself why not, it’s probably because you can’t / don’t want to remember lots of different…

  • Styling HTML elements in CSS without using classes / IDs

    Something I came across for the first time recently is the practice of using HTML element attributes to apply CSS styles. The mathematics can be found at http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/selector.html#attribute-selectors, but a basic example of where I use this technique is as follows… starting with a basic form… Demo Form Your Name Your Email Address To lay…