Monthly Archives: March 2010

03/31/2010
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Sandboxed Lua via PHP

I adapted Fran Rogers’s Lua MediaWiki extension into a library named Looah. It runs Lua code in a sandbox from PHP, which allows you to execute Lua code provided by users. Right now it supports limits on recursion depth, the … Continue reading


03/26/2010
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VC6 Windows binaries for imagick 2.3.0

Here are Windows binaries for imagick 2.3.0 compiled with VC6 (you can find VC9 binaries at Mikko’s blog) against PHP 5.3.2 (API20090626). php_imagick.dll, NTS php_imagick.dll, TS Remember that you still need the appropriate ImageMagick DLL for imagick to work.


03/17/2010
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Fixing Helvetica on webpages on Windows

If you happen to be on Windows and have Helvetica (or Helvetica Nueue), then you are probably well aware how terribly Windows renders the font. It’s ugly in every way imaginable, and at smaller font sizes, you are forced to … Continue reading


03/16/2010
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An extensible Python plugin framework

There’s this Python chat bot/IRC bot framework that I have been working on for over a year and half now (very slow progress). Most of the work has gone into thinking about the extensible plugin framework. It’s worthy to consider … Continue reading


03/16/2010
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Premier Divertissement: Jupiter – Modérément

I came across a beautiful song by French composer Antoine Forqueray: Premier Divertissement: Jupiter. To cut to the chase, listen to it: http://www.deezer.com/listen-2072702