Internet Streaming Radio
for Media Player Classic

NOTE: Added Winamp Playlists to the zip file i’ve collected a list of high-quality (meaning, fairly high-bandwidth / high bitrate — however you wish to classify it…) streaming internet radio. Just click here and download the .zip file which contains a simple text file (i used the .ini extension to help you recognize the proper … Read more

Internet Streaming Radio for Media Player Classic

NOTE: Added Winamp Playlists to the zip file i’ve collected a list of high-quality (meaning, fairly high-bandwidth / high bitrate — however you wish to classify it…) streaming internet radio. Just click here and download the .zip file which contains a simple text file (i used the .ini extension to help you recognize the proper … Read more

PHP: Manual Installation on Windows Systems

RE: php-5.1.2-Win32.zip In the past, on a few different Windows XP systems, I have installed PHP as an Apache module, and i’ve been thrilled by achieving a functional Apache / PHP configuration without having to troubleshoot as i simply never experienced any problems with the installations. However, on this particular XP setup, Apache and PHP … Read more

mod_perl: Installation Failure (however difficult to assess)

Lacking the knowledge previous to this day’s endeavor, in an ultimate attempt to develop ASP on an existing Apache2 installation, i researched the options and my searching pointed to – mod_perl. What I installed the file named Perl-5.8-win32-bin-0.10.exe , a rather complex, self-extracting, “automatic” installation process. I probably would have had more success had I … Read more

XSS Preparedness & a Friendly Programmer’s Advice

PHP Input Validation Flaw in Certain Error Pages as reported on Security Tracker dotCom, and other such news always raises my ears because I have been the victim of Cross Site Scripting myself. I have also been the victim of other hacks related to my own lack of security precautions, so tend to review alerts such as … Read more

mail() function – the PHP Manual

mail (PHP 3, PHP 4, PHP 5) mail — Send mail Description bool mail ( string to, string subject, string message [, string additional_headers [, string additional_parameters]] ) Sends an email. Parameters to Receiver, or receivers of the mail. The formatting of this string must comply with RFC 2822. Some examples are: user@example.com user@example.com, anotheruser@example.com User <user@example.com> … Read more

Understanding CSS:
Syntax and Basic Data Types

The Following excerpt is borrowed directly from the W3C CSS 2.1 Specification: Ch. 4 Syntax and basic data types. It has been modified from the original code only in that relative paths have been changed to absolute URL’s. Rather than cite specific sections of Ch 4, i thought it best to leave it open to case-by-case … Read more