Right then Cronies… I think an explanation is needed. Redbrick has been reinstalling and cleaning up their server and that is why Philroche.net was down for the last few days. Everything should be alright now though.
News:..
I played my first game of golf and I found I was quite good (If I do say so myself).
I bought an MP3 player (currently in Transit)

I bought it all from NeutronExpress who ship internationally. I can't wait till I get it all. There is a new Iriver IHP120 coming out with 20GB but I can never see myself using that much so i just went ahead and got the IHP100. Both the IHP100 and IMP550 are firmware upgradeable which means when iriver come out with the OGGVorbis update (end of month) I can listen to nearly all Digital music formats. The IHP 120 has some features that the IHP 100 does not have but thatnks to the firmware upgrade feature mentioned… the IHP can have all those new features. Anyway enough ranting. Enda and Tara are arriving here tomorrow morning and Ken and Sinead are arriving on Friday and Jean's Brother James and Anita are arriving next tuesday. I can't see that there aill be many quiet nights over the next few weeks.
Anyway I'll update again tomorrow.. Cya

Yesterday I found a php class for displaying a progressbar while the server is busy. I edited the class so that it is cross browser and so that you don't need absolute positions to positions it. There is one anomoly with it and all php progress bars, IE [Internet Explorer] does not allow flushing of data if done insie of a table tr….very strange. I have a demo version here. I needed this for an bulk email app that I wrote and it really works well in that context.

http://www.google.com.au/help/features.html

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September 11 Image Exhibition
Lets hope it never happens again..

Things you'll needs to remember or rather things I will forget and need to save somewhere:
To reset the Auto_increment value on a MySql table
ALTER TABLE tbl_name AUTO_INCREMENT = 100

Getting Hiread @ Microsoft
The Guerrilla Guide to Interviewing
Secrets of Microsoft Success, Part 1
Interview with the Baghdad Blogger
Death-Penalty Mistakes
Politically incorrect observations about Mac OS X and Windows

Most of the above were taken from Scobleizer

Links that you will need if trying the above….

• MYSQL :
  * Linux installation http://www.mysql.com/documentation/mysql/bychapter/manual_Installing.html#Linux-RPM
  * Download http://www.mysql.com/downloads/mysql-3.23.html
• APACHE :
  * Download http://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi
• PHP :
  * PHP download http://www.php.net/downloads.php
  * PHP Installation on Apache http://au.php.net/manual/en/install.apache.php
• SSL :
  * OPENSSL http://www.openssl.org/
  * MOD_SSL http://www.modssl.org/
• XSLT :
  * Sablotron PHP Page http://www.gingerall.com/charlie/ga/xml/x_sabphp.xml?s=org
  * Sablotron Download Page http://www.gingerall.com/charlie/ga/xml/d_sab.xml?s=org
  * Sablotron 0.97 (recommended)
• Tutorials :
  * Devshed LAMP Tutorial http://www.devshed.com/Server_Side/PHP/SoothinglySeamless/page1.html
  * Sablot Installation Tutorial
  * Apache Install Tutorial http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/apache/2000/02/24/installing_apache.html

All RSS feeds are in XML format but not all of them are of text/xml content type which of course they should be, since they are xml. Aggreg8 does not work for Feeds with content type not set o text/xml, this in my opinion is not a flaw but an oversight on the part of those hosting the RSS feeds. Below you can see how to set the content type of a file using various languages :

PHP :
<? header("Content-type: text/xml); ?>

ASP:
<% Response.ContentType = "text/xml" %>

JSP :
<%@ content_type="text/xml" %>

If everybody did this then Aggreg8 would work for all feeds… it would make me a lot happier and my inbox wouldn't be so full.

On Scobleizer's blog there was a link to a new facility called webpage analyzer,. It allows you to analyze your webpage… how longs it takes to download, the numbe rof images etc. I analyzed the Philroche.net homepage.