Archive for June, 2009

How to Set Up a Web Proxy Using PHP in 5 minutes

After watching the Iran protests and seeing the overwhelming response of internet users to create web proxies for Iranian citizens to use to get their messages, photos and stories out onto sites like Twitter and Facebook, I decided that I would make a guide to allow web users to quickly set up their own proxies [...] Read more »

Summer Wars Full Trailer Released

The full 111-second trailer of Summer Wars has been released:

This anime film is from Mamoru Hosoda, the same person who directed The Girl Who Leapt Through Time. The film is scheduled for an August 1st release in Japan. It seems pretty interesting from the trailer, and the animation, character development and comedy seem right up there with The Girl Who Leapt Through Time. I’m definitely looking Read more »

jQuery, Ajax/Javascript development made fast and easy

Recently in work, I had to implement an  Ajax powered web page for a project I was working on. However, being a complete beginner in Javascript, this was quite a daunting task since I would have to write my own Javascript code for common functions that are used on many websites.
Then I did some Googling, [...] Read more »