Marcus Nyberg

This post describes a weird difference in how Internet Explorer and Firefox handles the Document Object Model (DOM). In my case I got different browser-behaviour when using firstChild and nextSibling in a javascript. The problem is that the Firefox DOM does not ignore line breaks and whitespaces while IE does.
Instead of using firstChild and nextSibling […]

This php-script is for converting content of all tables of a mysql database to another character set. In this case i convert everything (latin 8859-1) to utf8_swedish_ci. The same action can be made from the shell with mysqldump and iconv, but the programmer in me prefers the-php-way. As always, tweaks and comments are very helpful.

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set_time_limit(0);
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I have been restoring the Theatre of Magic pinball machine at our office for the last month. The result is a fully functional game with a nice clean playfield. I think this will boost office morale, because a great pinball machine is a good thing you need at work.
Well, the game is not […]