9 July 2011
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Earlier in the week i started experimenting with translating infinite series calculations for the value of Π into php. I started with the Chudnovsky brothers algorithm which I understood to be the fastest. As you will see extensive use of … Continue reading
27 October 2010
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A client had a need for up to date timezone data in PHP so I pointed them at http://pecl.php.net/package/timezonedb. Unfortuantely the client was using windows as the server environment and there is no windows build of this extension. So … Continue reading
15 June 2010
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I’ve been doing some experiments with the C++ API of the festival text to speech library. The documentation describes gives a code snippet to use this API. So far I’ve successfully manged to compile a C++ snippet like the one … Continue reading
22 March 2010
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I started getting a warning appearing in my logs generated by mysql_query mysql_query() [function.mysql-query]: Unable to save result set in /includes/database.mysql.inc on line 116. Ok so this was obviously a problem with one query that was either hitting a corrupt … Continue reading
5 March 2010
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A couple of times now I’ve had to add password authentication to the Jetty Web server. Once for an installation of cruisecontrol and once for for an apache solr installation. I’m used to just adding password authentication to a .htaccess … Continue reading