Monthly Archives: June 2006

Punch Out! – The Movie

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I came across this short film called “Punch Out!! The Movie” based on the popular Nintendo 8-bit video game, Mike Tyson’s Punch Out!. The film is quite amusing in a gamer and geeky sort of way, enjoy.

Common Mistake – Echoing an Array

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I’m sure most would agree when one does a programming mistake they are a lot of times trivial mistakes. However when one stares at the code for long periods of time we seem to go blind and then in the process of frustration loose all logically thinking as to what could be causing the problem. Here is one such problem with arrays.

  • Problem
    • The value of the Array is not rendering. Instead you see array[0].
  • Solution
    • Remove your single or double quotes around the variable representing the array. When one places single or double quotes around the array you are causing it to be treated as literal.

    PHP – Populate HTML Select Element

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    There is many ways to populate vales into a HTML select element. Here is one example I’ve come up with.

    PHP Code Example

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    <select size="1" name="szFooBar[]" multiple="multiple">
< ?php
$i=0;
while($obResults = mysql_fetch_row($saResults))
{
    if ($_POST['szFooBar'] == $obResults[0])
    { $szSelectedValue[$i] = " selected=\"selected\""; }
    else { $szSelectedValue[$i] = ""; }
 
    printf("<option value=\"%s\"%s>%s\n",$obResults[0], $szSelectedValue[$i], $obResults[1]);
    $i++;
}
?>							
</select>

    isoHunt.com – Interviewed by CBC

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    An interview has been recently done by CBC with Gary Fung the operator of isoHunt.com about the MPAA suing him for purposely violating film copyrights. isoHunt.com is a BitTorrent search engine site which the MPAA is claiming allows individuals to steal movies and is costing the movie industry money. Just like the interview and the MPAA they are just not seeming to understand the fact that isoHunt.com is just an search engine that indexes content that is available on the Internet. isoHunt.com is no different then Google.com, Yahoo.com or MSN.com. This aggrevates me to no end that the MPAA or anyone else for that matter has the right to market inaccurate information to the general public and have the right to sue someone into the ground. Just like isoHunt, Google and others they can not nor can they control what content is available online. I hope this case and others will finally put this to rest like it should be. This is however as long as the MPAA doesn’t drive isoHunt.com, Gary Fung into breaking down to fight back due to overwhelming legal costs. It’s like a big bully on a play ground attacking an innocent child that has no where near the power to possibly fight back. Power in this case is money, political and marketing lies to the public.

    Source: CBC Interview: Richmond man takes on Hollywood in piracy case (video, RealPlayer)