You might have heard of the double post issue, which causes form data to be sent a second time to the server. This can be resolved by a HTTP redirect after the post has been processed. Today another problem occured to me, one that reminded me of that issue. Continue Reading…
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When using JavaScript or PHP you need to keep in mind that these aren’t typed languages. Typed languages give us a lot of restrictions whilest keeping us from doing stupid things. Untyped languages do not have those restrictions so they leave us with a lot of freedom. Do we need this kind of freedom?
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Today I played a bit with my [fotoalbum](/development/fotoalbum/). I learned that I made a whole **lot** of database queries which are not necessary at all. So I began making optimisations to improve performance.
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Have you ever wanted to push a value to a HTTP page and don’t care about the result? Well, you *can* do it in pure C, but be prepared – it is not as trivial as you might think. Here is how to do it.
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Today I finished my work on a somehow special exam. Our grade of the course taught by [Dr. Zoltán Porkoláb](http://gsd.web.elte.hu/) would be calculated by a C++-programme. We had one week to write a header file that is included in that programme.
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Hi folks. I’ve been working on fotoalbum to improve themes and using custom style sheets. Check it out, it is now capable of a new theme called sdm-fixed (which will evolve in the following versions of fotoalbum). Please send me feedback on how it works and how it could be improved.
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Yesterday I found a great image I’m using now as my background image. It is called Green Meadow. But my GDM greeter didn’t fit to this image anymore, so I thought it would be nice to have a GDM theme with this image used as my greeter. This is why I made one.
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A brand new version of my [fotoalbum](/2005/08/my-fotoalbum) is out today. Grab it while it’s still hot! With it comes a renewed version of the [fotoalbum WordPress plugin](/wordpress-fotoalbum-plugin).
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WordPress has so many fotoalbum plugins for galleries hosted by flickr or other online image databases. I made my own [fotoalbum](/2005/08/my-fotoalbum) a few months ago and thus I wanted to create a plugin that can be used. It is designed to be simple and has only a few options yet, but you can already get single thumbnails from fotoalbum images and even whole contents of an album as thumbnails. It also displays the title of the image and uses the current number of image on the page as prefix.
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Today I found out about a solution to the Internet Explorer problem I recently had with [my fotoalbum](/2005/08/my-fotoalbum/). I read about the Holly Hack that prevents Internet Explorer on Windows to behave abnormally and found out it may be a solution to my problem too.
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