http://beta.ivancover.com/blog Yet another weblog, by ivc. Fri, 07 Nov 2008 23:03:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en For a long time I've been aware of classes (and their objects) in PHP but I've never really gotten the time to figure out how they work and how they're structured, before now. A class can have a collection of functions that belong to a specific part, or say, module of ... http://beta.ivancover.com/blog/2008/11/08/php-objects/ iPhone, yes, I'm pretty sure you have heard the name a couple of times before. I decided to get the next generation iPhone, the iPhone 3G, on the launch date to get the excitement. Contrary to the first iPhone I got in October 2007 when the jailbreaking and unlocking was properly ... http://beta.ivancover.com/blog/2008/07/11/iphone-3g/ I can't remember how many times I've had the need for a bootable CD-R/DVD-R to boot into DOS to do some trivial task, like flashing a BIOS or duplicating a hard drive. As a reference for myself I've created a quick entry to show how to use a regular downloadable floppy ... http://beta.ivancover.com/blog/2008/05/28/create-bootable-disc/ Recently I've received some blog comments spam. I received an e-mail for each new comment but I didn't bother much about it. Now, today after updating my e-mail server to better fight spam and bounce spam, I decided to do a clean-up of the blog comments. A quick search for 'wordpress ... http://beta.ivancover.com/blog/2008/05/21/recaptcha/ I had a problem with flash video stopping after 2 seconds and sound missing in Opera and Firefox. Flash video worked fine after relaunching the browser but after a few minutes the issue popped up again. Although I normally have 10-20 tabs in both browsers. But the weird thing is ... http://beta.ivancover.com/blog/2008/04/13/fix-flash-2-second-stop/ A week ago, Dan Thomas, Marianne, and myself, traveled to Newcastle, UK, for the weekend 18-20th January. The main attraction was the Ultimate Fighting Championship 80: "Rapid Fire" show in the Metro Radio Arena. The transit flight to Schiphol was delayed 3 hours and we spent the night at the airport. ... http://beta.ivancover.com/blog/2008/01/28/newcastle/ The Asus Eee PC is a lot of fun. Mostly because of the size and the room for modifications. It's in the same realm as the OLPC/XO machine, sub-$400 market. By default the Eee PC sports a Celeron M 900 MHz processor, 512 MB memory, 7-inch 133 dpi 16:9 display, 4 ... http://beta.ivancover.com/blog/2007/12/31/eee-pc/ Two months ago we got around getting a couple of iPhones. Thanks to a nice fellow in the United States and the Apple Store for accepting international credit cards, I received the package after just a week after placing the order (that's a pretty nice round-trip considering it left the ... http://beta.ivancover.com/blog/2007/12/05/iphone/ Yesterday I received the new Sony Ericsson P1i, released to the market last week. I tried not to be to excited this time around, seeing what Sony Ericsson did to the P990i. Suprisingly it's been a blast since I unpacked it, everything is prefect. It's small and tidy, not bloated at ... http://beta.ivancover.com/blog/2007/08/03/sony-ericsson-p1i/ Late last week I finished a project that I've been working on for 3 months. It's called DuggBack and it complements the Digg.com website and makes it easy to find available mirrors and caches of webpages that's been made popular and hit by the 'Digg Effect'. The official launch was ... http://beta.ivancover.com/blog/2007/05/06/duggback-and-digg-button/