Cool service

Just read about a cool service called TripIt over at Joel on Software. You just email your travel conformation emails to plans@tripit.com and they will reply with an organized itinerary with travel data, maps, weather reports and hotel address and such. Of course they don’t support every type of conformation mail. They have a list of what they support though, so it’s easy to see if you whould try it out or not.

I am going to php|tek again this year so I guess I have to check out TripIt when I order the trip! :)

Sick of social networking sites?

If you are sick of social networking sites like myspace or facebook (like I am starting to get), then this site is the one for you!

Mass Effect FTW!

Last week I started playing Mass Effect that I have had lying around since before Christmas. At first I somehow thought the graphics was kinda dull after playing through Assassin’s Creed which was absolutely beautiful. After a while I got used to how Mass Effect looks, and now I think it simply amazing. :) There are loads of stuff to explore and do so I guess I’ll play this game for a while.

I still have some achievements left in Assassin’s Creed though but since I managed to miss Conversationalist I have to play through the whole game once more to get 100%. Maybe I’ll do it sometime later when I’m done with Mass Effect. :)

New proposal for the Zend Framework

Earlier today I started on a new proposal for a user agent component for the Zend Framework. You can check out the proposal here (the proposal is faaaar from ready, I just put it up there to have something to begin with). If someone out there have any ideas or whatever, don’t hesitate to leave a comment.

The component can be used to figure out what kind of client is accessing it. Lets say we have a mvc based application and we would like to make different views for different clients (mobile phones, smart phones, browsers, rss readers and so on)… This could then be done by asking Zend_UserAgent what type of device we are dealing with and present the correct view for the client.

A list of user agents can be found over at user-agents.org and that is probably the database I will use with the component.

First post from T61

Yesterday I got my new ThinkPad T61! My trustworthy old Fujitsu Siemens Celsius H210 died last week and I needed a new machine, so I thought the T61 was a good choice.

The laptop is mucho sexy and now sports Ubuntu 7.10. The only thing that does not work all that well as of now is the wifi. It’s horribly slow but after some googling it seems that I am not the only one with that problem. I’ll try some other drivers later today though and hopefully that will fix it. Everything else worked out of the box so I’m satisfied! :)

Maps to Assassin’s Creed

If you’ve played through Assassin’s Creed and did not get all flags or did not kill all templars, you might want to check out Assassin’s Creed Interactive Maps for maps that includes locations for all you might have missed.

RESTful vs. REST-RPC hybrid vs. RPC webservices

I am reading through RESTful Web Services by Leonard Richardson & Sam Ruby and found a good description of a RESTful resource-oriented service vs. a REST-RPC hybrid service vs. an RPC service:

A RESTful, resource-oriented services exposes a URI for every piece of data the client might want to operate on. A REST-RPC hybrid exposes a URI for every operation the client might perform: One URI to fetch a piece of data, a different URI to delete that same data. An RPC-style service exposes one URI for every process capable of handling Remote Procedure Calls (RPC).

Just something I wanted to share. :)

PE progress!

I am now 36% genius having solved 63 problems over at Project Euler! Today I had to read about Euler’s totient function on wikipedia to solve problem 69. It’s quite fun to read all this math gibberish and suddenly understand it. :)

32% genius and in the Top 1000 list

I am currently at 952nd position at Project Euler, having solved 57 problems! I think it’s the first time I’ve been in the top 1000 list. :) The problems are starting to get a bit too hard for me. I think I can solve maybe 10-15 more but then it’s probably getting way to difficult.

New theme

I just switched the theme of this blog to get a flexible width. It doesn’t look that good though, but at least the lines of code doesn’t wrap.

If there is anyone out there who have some tips on how I can have better looking PHP code in my blog I would be happy to hear about them. :)