Category Archives: Technology

Google Voice Quality

Google voice is still my second choice. When I used it a few days ago to call my wife for a second, she kept saying “huh?”, “what?”, “I can’t hear you”. After saying it three times, she got it. Then she told me that I sounded terrible. There may not really be an advantage to… Read More »

Google Voice Now Open to Everyone in the US

Source: PC World Google’s telephony management application Google Voice is now open to all U.S. residents, as the company on Tuesday removed the requirement for prospective users to receive an invitation in order to sign up for the service. Google Voice Now Open to Everyone in the US Already, there are 1 million people with… Read More »

PHP explode and trim the results?

php.net – where I posted this Overview This is something that I used to use on this site before I went to WordPress. If you checked “view source” and looked at the meta keywords, you would notice a comma separated string. When programming, you may want to take a comma separated string and grab the… Read More »

JavaScript stripslashes

Sometimes you have to add slashes to javascript text. PHP has it built in, javascript does not. Here is the code to put into your javascript to get the same functionality: function addslashes(str) {      str=str.replace(/\\\\/g,’\\\\\\\\’);      str=str.replace(/\\’/g,’\\\\\\”);      str=str.replace(/\\”/g,’\\\\”‘);      str=str.replace(/\\0/g,’\\\\0’);      return str; } function stripslashes(str) {      str=str.replace(/\\\\’/g,’\\”);      str=str.replace(/\\\\”/g,'”‘);      str=str.replace(/\\\\0/g,’\\0’);… Read More »

MySQL mysqli

mysqli is a built in part of mysql 4.1. It incorporates all functionality required to interact with a database from your PHP file. It has basics like querying the database, which includes SELECTing data as well as INSERTing data. It also give the ability to use prepared statements, transactions which can be committed or rolled… Read More »

Message To New Programmers

So you’re embarking on a programming career, are you? Personally, I’ve been graduated for only 1 year but my experience is technically 2 years, no pun intended, thanks to my co-ops while in college. Before I get so far into my career that I forget my education process I figure I should record it so… Read More »