For the past couple of weeks I’ve been working on a PHP system that uses the Google Safe Browsing API to download blacklists and perform lookups on them with the goal of limiting the destructiveness of phishing and malware websites. Its still in a very early development phase (alpha) and there[...]
Archive for the ‘General’ Category
June 6th, 2010 - 4:48 pm § in General
[PHP] TLD List, Inc. Level 2 & 3
Whilst working on a new open-source project I needed to be able to be able to detect/remove the TLD’s from hostnames. This is no easy task algorithmically as example.co.uk (level 2) is just as valid as example.com (level 1) which is also just as valid as example.bob.shiga.jp (level 3). I came [...]
April 2nd, 2010 - 2:00 pm § in General
HTC Desire Release Dates
W ith the launch of the HTC’s new Desire imminent I was hoping to get my hands on one sooner rather than later. Unfortunately it seems that due to the current (but surely not unexpected?!) high level of demand the main release date for the UK has been pushed back to April 12th for standard [..[...]
December 11th, 2009 - 12:55 am § in General
The Alternative Top 100 Songs of the Decade
Disgusted at the fact that Absoute Radio’s “Songs of the Decade” includes fifteen, yes, 15 songs by McFly, one of my good friends Daniel Bailey has created an alternative Top 100 songs of the Decade list. If you strongly disagree with any of these then leave a comment. I’ve a[...]
November 20th, 2009 - 12:37 am § in General
Email to SMS / Email to Mobile, Free Database
Heres another one of my general snippets in part of coding a new project. This database has been created solely using data from Wikipedia. I’ve edited the list, removed those which are either commercial, don’t provide actual email addresses or those that I can visibly see don’t wor[...]
November 3rd, 2009 - 3:53 pm § in General
MultiPart E-Mail Code for PHP (Text and HTML)
Whilst trawling through some of my ultra-old posts on various forums I’ve found this nifty little piece of code that enables you to send in both HTML and TEXT form. This is useful for clients that cant display HTML (they will display the text instead). I developed it back in 2007 so it may nee[...]
October 9th, 2009 - 2:18 pm § in General
New Project: vBulletin-Bridge
Whilst working on FetchMP3 I wanted to create a bridge between the forum membership system and that of the main site’s. So a lot of writing later the vbulletin bridge was born. It has many of the features any membership system would need such as:[...]
October 8th, 2009 - 4:32 pm § in General
Under Construction!
Its been a long time coming but I’m finally re-developing my site, I’ve been pre-occupied recently with the latest project I worked on, FetchMP3, but I’m now finally getting my act together and adding content etc. Most of the portfolio has been updated now but the main content is s[...]