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Droid 3 Rant

Droid 3 Rant


Growing Up

Why is it that when I see ‘adults’ get toys or do grown up things it cool but nothing I would do. But then when I see one of my friends my own age do something adult I’m like wtf. Case in point, one of my friends just got a motor cycle, tho I do have to say I’m the only one that’s married.


[PHP] PDO Function – Pastebin.com

[PHP] PDO Function – Pastebin.com


Time

So many side projects, so little time 🙁 where to get started


304 Not Modified Header and PHP

This is a nice little snipet that I use when serving dynamic images so the client will cache them properly. It uses a 304 Not Modified header to tell the client to not re-download the file. This mostly saves on TCP overhead however a connection must still be made to the server. I’m sure that somewhere out there is a header to make it so the client won’t even send the request in the first place see edit.

$info = $result->fetch_assoc();
 
// They have the current version
if (strtotime($_SERVER['HTTP_IF_MODIFIED_SINCE']) == strtotime($info['updated'])) {
    header('Last-Modified: '.gmdate("D, d M Y H:i:s", strtotime($info['updated'])) . " GMT", true, 304);
    exit();
 
// Sent them the file
} else {
 
    // Headers
    header("Content-type: image/jpeg");
    header("Last-Modified: " . gmdate("D, d M Y H:i:s", strtotime($info['updated'])) . " GMT");
    header("Expires: " . gmdate("D, d M Y H:i:s", strtotime(time() + 3600) . " GMT"); # 1h
    header("Cache-Control: public, maxage=3600"); # 1h
    header("Content-Length: ".strlen($info['image'])); 
 
    echo $info['image'];
    exit();
}

The only issue with this code is 99% of the server side work is alredy done. If it isn’t a mission critical image you can do this at the top of the file instead to save a lot of back end time.

if (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_IF_MODIFIED_SINCE'])) {
    header('Last-Modified: '.gmdate("D, d M Y H:i:s", strtotime($_SERVER['HTTP_IF_MODIFIED_SINCE'])) . " GMT", true, 304);
    exit();
}

Edit: Changing Cache-Control to public will make the browser just send a hello packet and not wait for a reply before showing the photo.


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RIP Steve Jobs


Bioshock 2

Just finished Bioshock 2 and loved it… a little shorter then 1 but not by much. Still has just as many twists and turns along they way but I don’t think anything can top the firsts at 50%. The moral choice seams mostly irrelevant but I need to do some more research on it. Also the addition of achievements on Windows kind of gave it away that I was almost at the end of the game.


Playing around with Seesmic Desktop. Other then being a Silverlight app it’s not to bad.

Playing around with Seesmic Desktop. Other then being a Silverlight app it’s not to bad.



So Ture (via M.I.T. – Very Demotivational – The Demotivational Posters Blog)

So Ture (via M.I.T. - Very Demotivational - The Demotivational Posters Blog)