PHP returning wrong date
From time to time we are working on small campaigns, where competition starts at given time. Because in Australia we have “so many” timezones, it’s critical to set things correctly according to the time zone.
Technologies
iframe won’t display content..
There is a website, with iframe. I frame source is correct, but won’t display content of the website. No visible errors. There only small detail in the console:
Load denied by X-Frame-Options: https://... does not permit cross-origin framing.
Some crazy admin figure out that it’s going to be better… and put some crazy code into headers:
X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGINX-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=blockX-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
Solution: talk to the hand, because admin won’t listen ;P
Australian postcode to state conversion
list of Australian postcodes by the state
I recently worked on a project with a super dull address form. I figured out that we need to help poor users fill tedious forms, so I made a little code snippet/function which gets the postcode and returns the state. I took postcode ranges from wikipedia , so blame them if something isn’t working as expected.
Binary compression still alive – golang binary compression.
In the ancient times, when I was coding mostly in Pascal – size did matter. People were using RAR to shave couple kilobytes from archives, and having 2mb executable was better then having 4mb executable file. In that beautiful time we used UPX – I wasn’t aware that this project is still alive, and works nicely with binaries create bo go lang.
Ultimate Packer for eXecutables Copyright (C) 1996 - 2017 UPX 3.
How to choose the right technology for your next project
what is the best stack for your next project
People quite often asking me about technology stack, and where to go with next big project. The answer isn’t simple – it depends. Usually, we have couple components which are critical for the whole system. If we are talking about a web-based solution or any API we have to decide about DATABASE, then we have STORAGE, moving on – some BACKEND service language.