DeeKnow’s Grotto

Formcrunch change for more flexible field names - made a change to formcrunch.pl today after DouglasD asked why a field named "subjectSomething" was dropped by the form-handler. Turns out the regexp was only looking for a partial match for any of our reserved varnames (e.g. 'subject').

Have changed it to do an exact match which means you can append other name sections to a reserved name and have it processed by the handler. See the script for details.

5:02:30 PM  

Opera user_agent identification - have modified browser_detect.shtml today to correctly identify Opera 5 and 6. It seems that version 4 was the last one to identify itself as Mozilla with an "Opera" string tacked on the end. Version 5 and 6 allow the user to select an identity, MSIE or Opera. More details here.

4:58:27 PM  

Blogging for Students - there is a discussion on the UWEBD list at the moment about on-line journals for students. Scot Hacker (great name) replied with a link to an article he wrote at O'Reilly.net reviewing blogging packages for this purpose, and the one he chose to use was MovableType.

4:53:27 PM