http://rediscoverer.net ... since almost everything is already out there. Thu, 08 Nov 2007 12:40:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en If you have Ubuntu Feisty or Gutsy with the default Firefox installed (meaning you didn’t manually downloaded/installed your Firefox), you might have some problems making the HTML Validator plugin work even after you followed the fix for Linux. I’ve already encountered this problem when I was still using Ubuntu Feisty ... http://rediscoverer.net/archives/36 “Welcome to the 1st ever Philippine PHP Developer’s Conference that will be held this upcoming December 1, 2007 where sharing opensource solutions in the enterprise and schools is the main theme.This is in follow up with last April’s grand meetup which caught the attention of Philippines IT Industry and were ... http://rediscoverer.net/archives/33 Disabled and readOnly input elements both prevent its data from being changed (at least via the user). But a disabled input element’s data is not sent with other data when the form is submitted. Could’ve saved me that extra 30-minute debugging time. http://rediscoverer.net/archives/32 Received an email claiming that it’s from Skype and it wants me to update my Skype profile. It was already suspicious because I don’t think Skype (and perhaps other service providers) would suspend users for not updating their account. It gave me a link to http://cavyg.com/ze4/include/cs/www.skype.com/login454544465646464/index.htm which was “dressed” as ... http://rediscoverer.net/archives/30 It’s almost a week since I installed Ubuntu Feisty Fawn on my home PC. My original plan was to install it in a separate hard drive. But since I bought a DVD burner, I might as well burn make some back-ups and free some space where I can install Ubuntu. Ubuntu ... http://rediscoverer.net/archives/28 Ok. Playtime’s over. Some people need to fix something. I’ve been playing with an XSS vulnerability in a social-networking site I’m using. The site had already had XSS holes in the past that got patched. But then the addition of new features always opened up new problems. One boring weekend, ... http://rediscoverer.net/archives/27 I was just thinking how nice it would be if more open-source PHP applications offer some sort of API for their application. It would really be useful specially when the application is likely to be integrated with another. For example, I have phpBB2 and Coppermine Gallery. Yes, there’s already a ... http://rediscoverer.net/archives/26 Nothing new. Just upgraded to the latest version of Wordpress . Fished around some styles… still unskilled and not inspired to come up with my own. Whooopss!! Just noticed something wrong with the layout when viewing a single article. The layout author forgot to clear the floats for the previous and ... http://rediscoverer.net/archives/25 I was looking at the MySQL manual for Date and Time functions and stumbled upon a function that I might need for an “experiment” I’m doing. I used the function EXTRACT in my query, having my test run on phpMyAdmin, but it was giving me a syntax error warning. I ... http://rediscoverer.net/archives/24 It’s almost 4 months after I last blogged here. I’ve been quite busy lately. Aside from work and the anime series I’ve been watching lately :D, I’ve been planning to make a CakePHP-powered blog to replace my current blogging software (Wordpress). I want to documenting my progress, problems that I ... http://rediscoverer.net/archives/23