Links for Wed 7 May 2008

SimpleTest – Unit Testing for PHP – Another unit test framework for PHP.
Tags: php simpletest unittest

Camera Hacks: Turn Your Point-and-Shoot into a Super-Camera – I've got an SD1000, I might give this a try.
Tags: camera canon chdk hack howto

mod_mem_cache – Apache HTTP Server – When did Apache get memcache support for mod_cache?
Tags: apache memcache mod_mem_cache

Thwarting comment spam | jenseng.com – The idea is to change the URL for submitting your comments at some level of frequency.
Tags: spam

RegExr: Online Regular Expression Testing Tool – Another web based RegEx tool. The UI on this one looks much better than the others I've seen.
Tags: regex regexr

webgrind – Google Code – Web based PHP + XDebug profiler writen in PHP5.
Tags: php webgrind xdebug

macvim – Google Code – This looks like a pretty good GUI version of Vim for Mac OS X.
Tags: macosx macvim vim

WordPress Quick Start Guide < WordPress Codex – Good run through on getting up to speed with WordPress, with lots of links to other topic specific resources.
Tags: documentation wordpress

JSSh – a TCP/IP JavaScript Shell Server for Mozilla – Telnet into your web browser. I wonder what new tricks people will come up for this.
Tags: extension firefox javascript jssh mozilla shell telnet

A Horse Called Paul Revere – a set on Flickr – Some where out there is a really big Beastie Boys fan with way too much time on his hands.
Tags: beastieboys humor music paulrevere

BeatDeadHorse.gif (GIF Image, 300×232 pixels) – Just in case you needed a visual for this particular phrase
Tags: horse image

Welcome | AppDrop – Uses the Google SDK for App Engine to use Amazon EC2 instead.
Tags: amazon appdrop aws ec2 gae google googleappengine

Exclusive: Google App Engine ported to Amazon’s EC2 – Waxy.org – This is interesting, I'm curious to see how this plays out in the long term
Tags: amazon appdrop aws ec2 gae google googleappengine

The 2 Hours After the WordPress 5 Minute Install | Postcards From My Life – Cal's list of things he does after WordPress is installed.
Tags: calevans wordpress

Amazon Web Services Blog: Storage Space, The Final Frontier – Storage for EC2 that doesn't disappear. I'm curious to see what the actual performance will be like.
Tags: amazon aws ec2 storage

Color Hunter – Another color scheme generator
Tags: color colorhunter

Google App Engine for developers – Niall Kennedy's over view of Google App Engine, the good and the bad.
Tags: gae google googleappengine

Video on Flickr? < Flickr Blog – Flickr launches their video service.
Tags: flickr video

The Mike Wallace Interview – Collection of interviews by Mike Wallace from the late 1950s.
Tags: history interview mikewallace news themikewallaceinterview tv video

TimThumb PHP Script Released » Darren Hoyt Dot Com – Be able to adjust image size on the server, on the fly is very handy.
Tags: image php resize thumbnail timthump

Google Email Uploader – If only this had come out last year.
Tags: gmail import

Mail a brick to junk mailers using paid postage – Creative tips with dealing with spammers and bulk mailers – I get so much junk mail I'm tempted to try this out.
Tags: junkmail

Stored Function to generate Sequences | MySQL Performance Blog – You could combine this with an INSERT trigger and get even more auto_increment like functionality.
Tags: database mysql sequence

Flickr Services > Encoding – Just in case you weren't sure what encoding the Flickr API uses.
Tags: api flickr utf8

CSS Compatibility and Internet Explorer – Huge table of CSS features for IE.
Tags: css ie

json-xml-rpc – Google Code – Looks like an XML-RPC to JSON bridge, handy for XHR/AJAX.
Tags: javascript json json-xml-rpc php xmlrpc

wiki:xmlrpc [DokuWiki] – DokuWIki docs on their XML-RPC API
Tags: dokuwiki wiki xmlrpc

JSPWiki: Wiki RPC Interface 2 – Didn't know that there was an XML-RPC API for Wikis. I wonder how wide spread it is.
Tags: api wiki wikirpc xmlrpc

AlternateIdea: A strftime for Prototype – Would be easy enough to remove the Prototype specific bits to have a strftime for plain Javascript.
Tags: date javascript strftime time

Student Application Deadline Extended – Google Summer of Code Announce | Google Groups – New deadline for GSoC 2008 student applications is 7 April 2008.
Tags: gsoc

Mike Davidson – Goodbye Movable Type, Hello WordPress – Another neat WordPress logo.
Tags: logo wordpress