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Monthly Archives: January 2010
Fix capitalized words in a MySQL table
I got a support request today for the Fake Name Generator. A visitor ordered US addresses, and some of the cities came back in all caps and some normal (e.g., FOLSOM and Folsom).
After digging into my code, I found that I was checking if a city name was in uppercase, and if so I was [...]
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Quick and Easy PHP WHOIS Script
I like to be able to type “whois somedomain.com” in my browser and have it bring up the WHOIS information. The site I’ve been using has a captcha (annoying) and has gotten unreliable, so I wrote this quick and easy script to pull the full unformatted WHOIS data for me:
<?php $d = isset($_GET['d']) ? $_GET['d'] [...]
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Lock a Deadbolt without a Key
I found this fun Instructable today that shows you how to lock a deadbolt without having the key. I can think of a few situations where this could come in handy:
You are at a friend’s house and they leave you home alone but forget to give you a key (or they give you the wrong one). [...]
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Jumbo Jenga
My friend Joey Novak recently posted about making some giant Jenga blocks, so I thought I’d give it a shot, too.
First, I needed to know what kind of wood to buy. Jenga blocks are 0.57″ x 1″ x 3″ (height x width x length). The easiest wood to get would be either 2×4 (1.5″ x 3.5″) [...]
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