Another web desktop January 22, 2006
Posted by elcukro in Javascript, PHP, framework.3 comments

Pageflakes makes another aim at a thing called ‘web desktop’ – a place to gather your email, RSS feeds, latest news of your interest and other stuff. Two most notable examples of web desktops are Google Personalized Homepage and Microsoft Start.com.
Pageflakes like most of the Ajax Desktops, features RSS reading, email checking, note taking, searching, etc.
It also provides a developer API to allow third party module-creation. It’s still in very early developer release (pre-alpha), and that may be the reason why it only supports IE. Sheesh…
Regular Expression evaluation tool January 16, 2006
Posted by elcukro in Javascript, PHP, Regular expressions, ajax.add a comment
I just stumbled upon rexv.org, which looks like the swiss army knife of online reg ex tools. It is somewhat limited to PHP (PCRE and Posix) and Javascript RX implementations, but still these tend to be among most popular. You can set all the bits and pieces yourself using checkboxes to modify the nature of constructed rx – the options include greediness, case-sensitivity, new lines and unicode. (more…)