Facebook Is Now The Best Tech Company To Work For

Really? Facebook?! "Best Tech Company To Work For" really?!

Wow, so it sounds like this place has gotten a load of rave reviews from its employees! Good for them, though, I'm really curious how they edged out Google.

Interesting...

Facebook Is Now The Best Tech Company To Work For

How to Tell the Difference Between Nerds and Geeks - wikiHow

How to Tell the Difference Between Nerds and Geeks - wikiHow

Funny, I saw this article in my iGoogle today. As a self-proclaimed geek, but also as a person who does not like to live up to any stereotypes, I agree and disagree with some things said. But overall, I do find this "How To" to be entertaining and interesting.

"...the term 'geek' has a more modern, updated and positive connotation than that of 'nerd'..." is definitely something I found true. To this day, I still feel a little offended when someone calls me a "nerd"!

I take articles like this to be entertaining, not as a general guideline; so, just warning you before you go and follow this HowTo to not expect the person to be as amiable as I would be.

Cheers!

Rip Javascript in PHP with a str_replace()

So yesterday, I gave a nod to David Baker's preg_match across multiple lines. And now, the reason I was looking for something along that route, tada!



function rip_java($content) {
$p = '|(\<script.+?\>.+?\</script\>)|ms';
preg_match_all($p, $content, $matches);
if ($matches[0]) {
foreach ($matches[0] as $v) {
$gp = '|http://drincruz\.blogspot\.com|i';
preg_match($gp, $v, $gpmatches);
if (!$gpmatches) {
$content = str_replace($v, '', $content);
}
}
}
return $content;
}


Javascript is very useful in this revision of the internet. However, if you allow other people's javascript on your site, then well, that's an entire whole different security issue. So what we wanted to do at work was only allow certain javascript to run on our sites; and that javascript being the code that we write.

This was written in PHP because we're using it with WordPress' content_save_pre filter.

Cheers!

preg_match across multiple lines

preg_match across multiple lines

I'm working on a plugin that required a multiple-line REGEX match. For whatever reason, my mind went blank even though I've done it before. Anyhow, here's a nice write-up by David Baker.

Cheers!

Exclude Directories in Bash Find | practical web development & design. cincinnati, oh

Exclude Directories in Bash Find | practical web development & design. cincinnati, oh

Just a quick blurb to thank tcmacdonald's blog for the help with this bash find command snippet:

find . -type f -not -path "*svn*" -exec chmod 644 '{}' \;


To be specific, I'm using `find` in a for loop to get all directories but I didn't want the results for the root directory (./).

So my snippet now looks like:

for f in `find . -maxdepth 1 -not -path '.' -type d`; do
...


And now I don't see the results for ./ listed! Thank you! Cheers!

Google TV Is Official: The Web And Pay-TV Have Finally Clashed - HotHardware

Google TV Is Official: The Web And Pay-TV Have Finally Clashed - HotHardware

Alas the long awaited big news from the 2nd day of Google's I/O: Google TV.

We already abandoned cable, satellite, etc., television and only receive the free OTA (over-the-air) channels. To supplement with OTA, we also watch a lot of shows online via my laptop connected to the TV. But now, Google innovates the two?! Interesting. At this point, I'd still rather just build my own HTPC, but this makes it a lot easier for the less tech-savvy TV watcher.

Let's see how things go with Google TV. Cheers!

Lego Robot Solves a Rubik's Cube in 25 Seconds Using Droid Phone | Inhabitat - Green Design Will Save the World

Lego Robot Solves a Rubik's Cube in 25 Seconds Using Droid Phone | Inhabitat - Green Design Will Save the World

You know when people say, "you have to see it to believe it"? Well, this was one of the moments for me. I read the article and was amazed at first, but the pictures look deceiving. They look fun, playful, perhaps a bit jovial, so I didn't take it seriously.

Until I saw the video that is! Wow! I mean, really WOW!

Kudos! Cheers!