Gordaen's Blog

This post is designed for those of you who have some experience working on webpages, but may not have a lot of background with actually setting up the webserver itself. Basically, if you want to setup a quick webserver (perhaps on a spare computer for testing), this will get things started. This will not tell [...]

I have finished the first of several books that I have to read for this quarter. The Outsiders is considered the classic book that started the Young Adult genre. A movie was also made about the story and stars quite a few “big name” people. I have not yet seen the movie, but it’s supposed [...]

Bernie posted about the Future of History and brought up some very interesting points. I started to comment, but the comment grew and grew until I was forced to acknowledge that it was heading toward rambling, which really should be a category on my blog. That being said, I think we’re on a trail that [...]

Over the winter break, I thought it was bad enough that I had to buy 16 books for my three courses this quarter. Well, I had my first class this morning and that total has jumped to 21. It sounds like this workload will be a great excuse for updating the blog less… I may [...]

Sometimes it seems like everyone has a different opinion on something, and the best function for comparing simple strings in PHP is one of those things. The four primary ways are ereg(), preg_match(), strstr(), and strpos(). For a simple comparison, any of these will work, but, once you start doing a great deal of string [...]