swansonager - what is matt up to? http://www.swansonager.com life of matt: husband, dad, cto, photographer, landlord, mountain biker Wed, 24 Feb 2010 04:05:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Rare Night Landing for the Space Shuttle – 5,700,000 mile mission. http://www.swansonager.com/web-stuff/rare-night-landing-for-the-space-shuttle-5700000-mile-mission/ http://www.swansonager.com/web-stuff/rare-night-landing-for-the-space-shuttle-5700000-mile-mission/#comments Wed, 24 Feb 2010 04:05:33 +0000 Swansonager http://www.swansonager.com/?p=688 This is awesome. Rare Night Landing for the Space Shuttle

]]> http://www.swansonager.com/web-stuff/rare-night-landing-for-the-space-shuttle-5700000-mile-mission/feed/ 0 A simple PHP script to detect if the HTTP REQUEST is a BOT http://www.swansonager.com/php-code-samples/a-simple-php-script-to-detect-if-the-http-request-is-a-bot/ http://www.swansonager.com/php-code-samples/a-simple-php-script-to-detect-if-the-http-request-is-a-bot/#comments Mon, 22 Feb 2010 11:49:05 +0000 Swansonager http://www.swansonager.com/?p=681 I put this together over the weekend wanted to share… I tweaked the initial method that NES Emulator provided (which emailed out if a bot requested your domain in PHP… hope you find it helpful! :) Cheers…

function is_request_a_bot(){
$retval = false;
$botlist = array(
"Yeti",
"Java/",
"Baiduspider",
"Speedy Spider",
"MLBot",
"Microsoft URL Control",
"Linguee",
"Yandex",
"ScoutJet",
"ClickTale bot",
"cuil",
"Teoma",
"alexa",
"froogle",
"inktomi",
"looksmart",
"URL_Spider_SQL",
"Firefly",
"NationalDirectory",
"Ask Jeeves",
"TECNOSEEK",
"InfoSeek",
"WebFindBot",
"girafabot",
"crawler",
"www.galaxy.com",
"Googlebot",
"msnbot",
"Scooter",
"Slurp",
"appie",
"FAST",
"WebBug",
"Spade",
"ZyBorg",
"rabaz");
foreach($botlist as $bot) {
if(ereg($bot, getenv("HTTP_USER_AGENT"))) {
$retval = true; //we found a bot :)
}
}
return $retval;
}

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doubletwist

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Definitely be sure to check out possibly the best site for Android ROMs and different flavors of the Android Open Source OS at AndroidSpin

]]> http://www.swansonager.com/android/for-anyone-using-an-android-device-and-you-want-to-upgrade/feed/ 0 Hello Ladies, look at this Manmercial http://www.swansonager.com/web-stuff/hello-ladies-look-at-this-manmercial/ http://www.swansonager.com/web-stuff/hello-ladies-look-at-this-manmercial/#comments Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:36:44 +0000 Swansonager http://www.swansonager.com/?p=673 Friday fun for the day – this guy has the sound of Ron Burgundy, some good friday fun from Old Spice.

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A while back we posted out the worst camera’s of 2009 on Swansonager. Today, we were alerted by Liam over at Digital Camera HQ of their new Digital Camera HQ Grades the Trends of 2010. They’ve done a bang up job on covering everything from what we can expect to see in form of memory card format consolidation to HD quality video in cameras and the ever cool GPS (Geotagging Photo System). Digital Camera HQ provides some of the best, unbiased reviews of digital equipment and digital cameras. If you’re looking to see what 2010 is going to have in store for everyone in terms of new products, the best, the worst and everything in between, please take a read of the Digital Camera HQ Grades the Trends of 2010. Enjoy!

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]]> http://www.swansonager.com/just-for-fun/best-ipad-app-out-to-date-maybe-even-ever/feed/ 0 Emulating IE7 inside IE8…even Facebook does it.. http://www.swansonager.com/code-hacks/emulating-ie7-inside-ie8-even-facebook-does-it/ http://www.swansonager.com/code-hacks/emulating-ie7-inside-ie8-even-facebook-does-it/#comments Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:29:04 +0000 Swansonager http://www.swansonager.com/?p=662 Yep, that’s right, take a look at what Facebook is doing to force their user’s browser to downgrade to IE7 processing. I’ve used this trick and it’s beautiful for testing backward compatibility to IE7 even if your development system has IE8 on it…

<meta http-equiv=”X-UA-Compatible” content=”IE=EmulateIE7″ />


swansonager_fb

Just add this line of code:

<meta http-equiv=”X-UA-Compatible” content=”IE=EmulateIE7″ />

…to the section of your page(s) and you’ll be able to emulate IE7 from right inside IE8 – Enjoy:)

Cheers!

]]> http://www.swansonager.com/code-hacks/emulating-ie7-inside-ie8-even-facebook-does-it/feed/ 0 Your words, my Mouth. E*Trade Baby Mail Takes off http://www.swansonager.com/web-stuff/your-words-my-mouth-etrade-baby-mail-takes-off/ http://www.swansonager.com/web-stuff/your-words-my-mouth-etrade-baby-mail-takes-off/#comments Thu, 04 Feb 2010 15:33:10 +0000 Swansonager http://www.swansonager.com/?p=660 It might be a piggy back on the uber success of the CareerBuilder.com Monk-e-mail, but it looks like E*Trade has their own version this year with Baby Mail – here are some outtakes from this years E*Trade Super Bowl 2010 spots…

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This might be my favorite quote from the article about Facebook developing their own version of PHP :)

When we asked what he thought of this style of release – years of secretive development by two lonely coders, likely locked in a deep, dark vault – Crowley said it was typical.

“[Facebook] tends to do giant code dumps,” he said. “Facebook tends to build something big, use it, and open source it.”

Read the full article on Read Write Web

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