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PHP supports UTF-8 characters in function names!

Apr. 8th, 2009 13:14 by sdeluca

While reworking a function that basically dumps the PHP stack when a crash occures, I came accros an interesting things I silently complain about for the past few years: why the hell I cannot write a function name with accents in there?

Well, the dream comes true in PHP 5.x, here you are, see the f […]

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moo.com: printing business cards... deception![UPDATE2:resending]

Mar. 25th, 2009 23:32 by sdeluca

Recently I gave a try to moo.com, an oline service that can print business cards for you and others things.

The site looks pretty good and the user interface is quite simple. So I decided to give it a try.

I created this colorful card, a recto and a verso with a good resolution:

moo.com quickl […]

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Allégeance au Roi -- Louis XIV

Feb. 18th, 2009 00:38 by sdeluca

Je lisais ce soir le dictionnaire de l'Académie française en sa première édition -- daté de 1694, et je fût quelque peu surpris par l'épître, dont je vous livre un cours extrait. J'ai pris soin de le "traduire" en français de ce siècle pour vous en faciliter la lecture, citoyen !

Quand je pense que […]

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I love typography at large: do you know that accents appeared in 1740 in french?

Feb. 3rd, 2009 23:19 by sdeluca

If you ever wondered when accents appeared in french... l'Académie française used the accents for the first time in 1740 with the 3rd edition of the dictionary:

L'Académie s'eſt donc vûe contrainte à faire dans cette nouvelle Edition, à ſon orthographe, pluſieurs changemens qu'elle n'avoit point j […]

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The True Story of Unix Shell 'IF'

Jan. 28th, 2009 13:16 by sdeluca

I came across an issue with one of my server script while I was giving it a refresh this morning. The script is a backup script that lays on every single box of my cluster which purpose is to make the backup of each box in regards of each individual box role in the cluster.

So I which to (pseudo) c […]

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S.T.O.R.M.: back in memories

Jan. 19th, 2009 22:56 by sdeluca

Yvan got in touch a few days ago about the Saturn SKU of S.T.O.R.M. one of the game I created in 1996. He wanted more information about it. And as does a great jobs I wanted to let you know that Yvan maintains a site about all Sega-based games called http://www.segadatabase.net which compiles tons o […]

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Sansévérino, live album at théatre des bouffes du nord: a gold nugget!

Dec. 16th, 2008 12:23 by sdeluca

Yeaaaaaah!

Hey guys, last june I was at the concert and was remarquably impressed by this performance. New songs and new style -- back to the root: all songs revisited!

Get to iTunes to see this album

And now, the live album is out on iTunes and is really really great.

I tell you that this alb […]

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eBay Security Flaws or How am I supposed to have bought 28 objects in 3 minutes on ebay france, US and italy!

Sept. 17th, 2006 21:37 by sdeluca

Wow... last Saturday I was surprised to receive no less than 28 email notifications about the 28 objects I had won the buys!
What? I didn't buy anything. Nor ever loged in eBay for months...
I did not realize at once. I 've opened one mail from ebay france (in french), and read the following:
" Fél […]

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Welcome to the Zoo!

Sept. 16th, 2006 00:33 by

Dear Mobile Hunter,

Like us, you're interested in tracking the very last, brand new specie of cell phone.

To capture one, you won't ever need any gun or weapon.

All you got to do is to download Mobile Zoo Hunter that you'll find in a few days on the site.

Yes. In a few days, As the Zoo is not y […]

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My Pilot License is Taking Off!

Sept. 3rd, 2006 01:38 by sdeluca
My first lesson of piloting was great! I could pilot the plane -- a ROBIN DR400 120 -- myself during the flight -- huhuhu, though I did not land the plane nor took it off...
Preparing for take off

I could make a tour on top of Saint-Émilion and Libourne, at around 1,500 feet. The lesson took place at Les Art […]
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Greek's no longer supported by bbc.co.uk!

Aug. 31st, 2006 16:43 by sdeluca

This is a kind of shocking fact: BBC just dropped the greek language and do not longer support it on its Web Site.

If you wanted to go as usual to http://www.bbc.co.uk/greek/ you only get:
"Η Ελληνική Υπηρεσία του BBC έχει κλείσει.
Σε αυτόν τον δικτυακό τόπο μπορείτε να βρείτε μια επιλογή από τα α […]

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