Finally I decided on a premade theme.

I like this Desert theme, looks really nifty.

One problem I have is that the links are not categorized anymore, usually it was organized in cats like Blogs, Cool Sites etc.

I’ll fix that at a later stage, I don’t think it would be a biggy.

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As said in a previous post, one of my friends is starting a new Website, IntoShape.

As it turned out, I am now also working on this project with him.

I am currently helping him out with some of the development elements of the site, but it looks great, everyday there are more and more sponsors that pitch up that want to get a piece of the cake.

Stats of the site ….
We have been running since 16 January 2005, and we are almost at an average of 100 unique visitors per day. As the competition is just for users in South Africa, which last when I checked have about a population of 40-50 million, which is quite good I think.

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Well, there was the MillionDollarWebsite(can’t seem to find the URL), the guy made his million, now these guys are really going to some troubles promoting and making it worth your while.

They’ve got the magic ingredients: GIRLS and CARS.

I think these guys are really original, and so what if they make a quick buck, they really have a nifty idea, check our www.smashmyviper.com

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I always worked on mySQL, or as far back as I can remember, and usually when searching for a variable in a string you just do a LIKE, and it doesn’t worry about case(case insensitive).


SELECT user_id FROM tblUser WHERE first_name LIKE '%$searchVariable%'


BUT with PostGres the LIKE is case sensitive(aaarghhh).

In PostGres you would do something like this:

$variable = strtolower($variable);

Wish I could find a way just to make this step 1 line shorter…. maybe on of those cool PostGres custom function thingies….

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Ha, I’m certified(now also in the physical world).

Zend, the people that initially started with the Zend Engine and started the whole PHP revolution, provides certification for programmers all over the world to be able to get Zend Certified!!

Last year(29 September 2004) I took up to the challenge and took the exam, and past with flying color(actually they only say pass) Last month I received the proof, a certificate(already framed by Zend) and a product CD, and some cool stickers and a nice letter congratulating me on my accomplishment.

I was the fourth person in South Africa to be certified ( link here ) as a Zend PHP Certified Engineer.

I also received an email from the people at Zend giving us the rights to use a special logo, cause we are one of the first 1000 PHP ZCE..

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