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Cheat in Candy Crush Saga: Easier than you think 28 Feb 2013 | 02:23 am
Well the other day I took a little peek at Candy Crush Saga’s security mechanisms and I found them somewhat lacking. It is trivial to skip levels and input arbitrary scores and their servers will acce...
Strip all but certain characters from a string in PHP (such as alphanumeric, numeric, etc…) 9 May 2012 | 02:27 pm
The #1 result in Google for stripping characters out of strings in PHP is awful and uses the deprecated ereg_replace function so lets make a new search result using preg_replace which is much better, ...
Australian Aerial Photography 20 Mar 2012 | 02:21 pm
We’ve recently been provided with some really high aerial photography of various places such as Armidale, Batemans Bay, Broulee, Forster and Narooma. It goes down from 10 to 6 cm resolution on the gr...
Apartments Australia is now Live! 2 Dec 2011 | 04:29 pm
Apartments Australia is a new real estate portal we have created to focus on Apartments, Townhouses and Units. We’ve given it a modern design, quite unlike most real estates on the net today. It also ...
Google Crawl Rate – Wow! 16 Oct 2010 | 09:14 pm
Well usually Google’s maximum crawl rate in Google Webmaster Tools is limited to 0.5 requests/second as the fastest rate possible with the slider. The growth of PropertyNow however has caused that sp...
PropertyNow and Google Crawl Stats 8 Oct 2010 | 10:58 pm
PropertyNow Real Estate has just recently opened its doors to agents and its done so in a big way. A very large number of agents have already signed up and more are coming. So much so, Google has tak...
4chan and AFACT 29 Sep 2010 | 12:08 pm
4chan has been on a rampage against any anti-piracy groups who annoy them and the list of casualties is pretty long. Yesterday they attacked AFACT (Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft) and ...
Bizarre and quirky things 28 Sep 2010 | 12:57 pm
Well I’ve finally gotten the Luxury Homes Australia Blog going which has got some pretty cool things. We send them out as a newsletter every week or so. I’ve also managed to finally find a very tall ...
Cornelia Funke’s new book ‘Reckless’ 15 Sep 2010 | 03:47 am
Well here I am at 1:50am doing server watching duty. Why? It is the release of Cornelia Funke’s new book called Reckless, and the server I’m watching is the official website. If anything goes wrong t...
Why global warming should be taken with a pinch of salt 10 Sep 2010 | 12:44 pm
Just the other day, a prime example of why you need to take global warming stuff with a pinch of salt. The problem? Not enough data. NASA’s Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellite d...
