Like anyone who works with the web, I get restless sometimes and occasionally get a fleeting notion that I need to overhaul and redesign my website. In this case PAYNEful was on its first version, if you disregard the placeholder page that sat on the domain for the best part…
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August 1, 2015 at 10:00 am | Portfolio and Work, Projects, Projects, Technology | No comment
Tags: Bootstrap, CodeIgniter, CSS, HTML, jQuery Mobile, PHP, Please don't hate me for my horrible code, WordPress
Note: if you’re looking for code, there’s a link at the bottom of this article where you can get a copy. This article just explains what the code does. About a year ago, Google mentioned casually that they would be getting rid of YouTube subscription feeds1. Earlier this year they…
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July 3, 2015 at 11:00 am | Articles, Portfolio and Work, Projects, Projects, Technology | No comment
Tags: Google, PHP, Please don't hate me for my horrible code, RSS, XML, YouTube
I’ve had a bit of dabbling with reading and interpreting text using PHP recently, specifically for two personal projects: A “translator” that reads in text and converts it to “fake French” (in the style of other silly “translators”). A simple application that reads and organises HTML bookmark files (as in…
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May 15, 2015 at 7:00 pm | Articles, Portfolio and Work, Projects, Projects, Technology | No comment
Tags: HTML, parsing, PHP, Please don't hate me for my horrible code, regex
Sometimes I get really specific problems that nobody else really gets. For instance, I have a comic character who speaks in a stereotypical fake French accent and I find that sort of thing hard to write, so I built a translator to turn perfectly good English into fake French. On…
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May 10, 2015 at 4:56 pm | Projects, Technology | No comment
Tags: HTML bookmark sorting, I have way too much time on my hands
Some weekends I get a little bit distracted with silly little projects. I’ve spent a good chunk of the last weekend on such an endeavour: the Authentic Silly French Accent Translator. Right about now you’re probably wondering why I would go to such ludicrous lengths to build an interface that…
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November 16, 2014 at 10:01 pm | Projects, Technology | 4 comments
Tags: 'Allo 'Allo, French, I have way too much time on my hands, Inspector Clouseau, Peter Sellers, silly accents, The Pink Panther, translator, writing
