Category Archives: Web Development

Regular Expression Artwork

Posted on 27th March, 2011 by Nick Bloor

For my final year university project I created a tool to visualise regular expressions. The tool visualises a set of algorithms used to compile a regular expression in to a finite state machine (very similar to a flowchart) and then … Continue reading →

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Serializing data and databases

Posted on 2nd March, 2011 by Nick Bloor

I just came across an article “9 Useful PHP Functions and Features You Need to Know“ on Nettuts+. Number 7 mentions using serialization (via PHP’s serialize() or json_encode() functions) to store a complex variable in a database or a text … Continue reading →

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Inject jQuery into any web page

Posted on 6th February, 2011 by Nick Bloor

Now and then I come across a website that could be made easier to use with a couple of lines of jQuery – for example a web mail application with check boxes next to every message but no “select all” … Continue reading →

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Writing to the FireBug console from Flash (and PHP)

Posted on 6th February, 2011 by Nick Bloor

I was recently tasked with modifying the behaviour of a ready-made Flash component and for convenience I wanted to interact with the Flash component within FireFox and view live debug output in the FireBug console. It turns out to be … Continue reading →

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