For a small project, I had to create a smart mailto link to make my life a bit easier. I wanted the mailto link to hold not only a to and the subject (I'd figured that much out) but a multi-lined body too. Turns out that is pretty darn easy to do. So, for my »

As regular readers of this blog might know I have written quite some tools using the different API's of search engines, and always found them quite useful. When I was implementing my sitewide search function, one of the things that bothered me that it was a bit slow. I knew that I had seen some »

Those of you coming to this site more often might have noticed a small change in the search box. It's now implemented sitewide, and I've built a sitewide search functions using the Yahoo! API. It was quite nescessary because I found that people were searching for "sortable.zip" on the blog, and they wouldn't find anything »

I'm doing some work on a site which has like 4,500 pages indexed with a PHPSESSID in the URL, causing some major duplicate content problems. I got the server admin to disable the PHPSESSID's by adding the following to the vhost config: I also wanted Google to get a clean URL when it decided to »

I got an email from Mozilla's director of product management Sherman Dickman today, that my sortable table script wasn't sorting numbers above 1 million which have comma's in them correctly (they do have a lot of Firefox downloads 😉 ). The problem was caused by the fact that replace only replaced items once, where they »

As I logged in to my Mint stats this morning, I saw that FeedBurner had registered 0 feedreaders for both yoast.com and www.css3.info. Now I know for a fact that that isn't true, and indeed, one the support forums it seems that more people have this problem. Update: it seems this problem was solved within »

Ok, i've fixed one hell of a bug in the table sorting script which must have been in there for at least 2 months, screwing up sorting incredibly, sorry for that. I added in a new feature as well, you can now have dates formatted as 01-Jan-1970, and it will sort these right as well. »

The W3C announced the release of an API for the HTML validator or rather, that's what they call it. In fact, it's nothing more than an output filter on their normal validator output, which gives SOAP 1.2 conforming output. It requires a HTTP request though, which makes it a rather funny "API" to deal with.

So last weekend I installed PHP5 on my server, to finally be able to do some new stuff, and this, it seemed, created some trouble with my SEO scripts that used NUSOAP. What is the problem? Well it's easy: PHP5 has a soapclient built in, and this causes trouble :).