Archive for April, 2009

IP Addressing – know your External IP April 30th, 2009 by Sheldon Lendrum

I often want to know my IP address from when I am not, when I am not at Home/Work.
I know that there are Lots of sites out there that will sett it to you, but I wanted to set my own up.
http://ip.sheldon.lendrum.co.nz/
And Even!
http://ip.lendrum.co.nz/

Cleaning my Apple Mighty Mouse Ball's April 29th, 2009 by Sheldon Lendrum

I have a couple of Apple Mac’s and with each of them, I have a Mighty Mouse.
I have one I carry with my with my Mac Book Pro, this is getting quite old now, It was the first release of the Wireless model, I pre-ordered it as soon as they were announced and have [...]

Changing the RSS refresh rate in Apple Mail April 29th, 2009 by Sheldon Lendrum

I use Apple’s Mail App as my primary mail client on both my personal and work mac’s, and for both machines I have various RSS Feeds subscribed.
I use apple mail as an RSS Client for a couple of reasons,
1) I just like how it works
2) its not just one more application I have to have [...]

Facebook Pirate Style April 28th, 2009 by Sheldon Lendrum

With the Millions of users on Facebook, there is a need for lots of different langauges, but did you know that you can view your facebook in Pirate English! It will change the whole site in to Pirate English, even the notification emails you receive.
It is Easy to turn on, and easy [...]

Non-Ascii charactors in my AJAX responses !? April 28th, 2009 by Sheldon Lendrum

A while ago, I co-wrote a large site with Ryan while I was working at Zipline Interactive, this site uses Mootools 0.98 as we found to be getting a lot of �������� all through the JAX requested response code.
For the life of US, we couldn’t figure out why? it’s not in the [...]

Controlling Input with Mootools Javascript April 22nd, 2009 by Sheldon Lendrum

On a project that I was recently working on, I had a series of text input boxes that I wanted to be numeric only fields. I have my PHP form validation to check that the data is numeric before entering any information in to the database, and I always use mysql_real_escape_string() on the [...]