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Here’s a nifty function to put spaces in your CamelCased words:

function spacify($camel, $glue = ' ') {
    return $camel[0] . substr(implode($glue, array_map('implode', array_chunk(preg_split('/([A-Z])/',
        ucfirst($camel), -1, PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY | PREG_SPLIT_DELIM_CAPTURE), 2))), 1);
}

echo spacify('CamelCaseWords'); // 'Camel Case Words'

I added in the $glue parameter to be even more nifty, but a bit of thinking made it clear that it wouldn’t work when the first letter was lower-case. Should be fine now!

…that is the question. The answer? FF.

This is why we need Grammar Nazis:

Today, I was flirting via text with a coworker. Things started getting heated, and I wanted to send her a sexy picture. I asked if she had any suggestions. She said, “Your nuts!” She meant, “YOU’RE nuts.” I sent her a photo of my junk. I offended a co-worker with incriminating evidence. FML

blizzard_of_77 on FMyLife

Ahh, grammar…

1. That Ben “Yahtzee” Croshaw is a goon;
2. that his early stuff is, if anything, funnier than his paid stuff for The Escapist;
3. that I there will always be something on the Internet that I haven’t seen, and that someone will think I have been living under a rock to have missed it.

Here’s a useful bit of Firefox hackery for you all. It puts a checkerboard (or chequerboard, for you elitists) image as the background for your transparent images. It works for any image when viewed directly in Firefox, by checking for a HTML page containing a single img tag. If you reproduce this structure manually, then you’ll see the checkerboard, but there’s very little chance that a legitimate HTML page would match these selectors. It works by adding some content to your userContent.css:

1. Lifehacker has a guide to finding your userChrome.css file — your userContent.css resides in the same folder.
2. You may not have a userContent.css file; if not, you should create it. In some instances you may have a userContent-example.css file, which you can rename to get the idea of what goes in this file.
3. Open the file and insert the following CSS:
   
   

   /*
    * Image from http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Checker-16x16.png
    * Avoided hotlinking per http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Reusing_content_outside_Wikimedia#Hotlinking
    */
   html > body > img:only-child {
   	background: url('http://starsquare.co.uk/images/checkerboard') repeat;
   }
   
   html > body > img:only-child:hover {
   	background: none;
   }
   

   
   With the above CSS, viewing an image directly displays the checkerboard at all times, unless you hover over the image, in which case it reverts back to show the normal image. If you want it the other way round, so the checkerboard only shows when you hover over the image, insert the following CSS:
   
   

   /*
    * Image from http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Checker-16x16.png
    * Avoided hotlinking per http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Reusing_content_outside_Wikimedia#Hotlinking
    */
   html > body > img:only-child:hover {
   	background: url('http://starsquare.co.uk/images/checkerboard') repeat;
   }
   

4. Save the file. If you had Firefox open, you should restart your browser. If not, simply start it up.
5. Find an image that contains transparency and open it in your browser; a good example is this image.
6. Pretend you’re in your favourite image editor!

I removed the body:only-child selector, since nightly builds of Minefield include a head tag to specify the page title.

It’s misled. I don’t care if you made it up to rhyme with mistreated, or if you use an 8-bit–style riff to appeal to my geekiness — The word is misled. That is all.

Makefile:

me:
	@true
a:
	@true
sandwich.:
	@[ -w /etc/shadow ] && echo "Okay." || echo "What? Make it yourself."

Shell:

$ make me a sandwich.
What? Make it yourself.

$ sudo make me a sandwich.
Okay.

From CLI-Apps. See also xkcd.

Supposedly 2% of all pound coins are counterfeit. But how do you know when you have a fake? I heard the news item and had a quick look at the pound coins in my pocket, and couldn’t see anything. I thought that maybe it wasn’t all that easy to spot. But then I saw one my Mum had:



There are a few noticeable differences:

• The lettering and images are faded
• The images have less fine detail
• They may not pass the “spin test” (although mine did) — the obverse image is not in the same orientation as the reverse image
• The lettering on the side is incomplete or off-centre
• The side inscription and obverse or reverse image may not match the supposed year of print (although, again, this one did)
• The material of the coin may feel different — this one felt less dense than the real one; gold paint may also flake off
• A vending machine will probably not accept it

There are other things that you can do beyond just looking at it, such as weighing it on some very accurate scales, or testing the resistivity.

One thing that doesn’t prove it’s fake, however, is the orientation of the lettering on the side. All my pound coins (except the fake) have the obverse facing upwards when reading the lettering, but I’ve seen other coins where it’s the other way around. There’s a three-part post over at Blogalism that goes into more detail, and in one of the comments explains that the coins fall from the face-stamping machine into the edge-inscription machine, giving it a 50% chance of appearing either way up. More information is available on the old WBCC page.

I’m still tired even a whole day after getting back, but I though it was worth it to mention how good the festival was, yet again!

I didn’t get a ticket immediately after last year, but waited until March. With hindsight, I reckon an early bird ticket might be required from now on, as it was even busier than last year! I even missed out on the brie and crackers…

Again, my list of bands includes a couple of bands for whom we only saw the odd song:

Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Metallica Pendulum Avenged Sevenfold Dropkick Murphys Plain White T’s Alexisonfire Mindless Self Indulgence Eureka Machines	Babyshambles Rage Against The Machine Vampire Weekend Goldfinger Friendly Fires Biffy Clyro Serj Tankian Dizzee Rascal Taking Back Sunday	The Killers Bloc Party You Me At Six The Raconteurs Seasick Steve Hifi Handgrenades The Automatic Random Hand

Again, I felt like I missed a load, but with so many on at the same time it’s impossible to get it all in! Thanks go out to Rob Marshall for his clash finder, which helped out greatly!

View pictures of the festival

Radovan Karadžić, the recently captured war criminal, was doing a good job disguising himself as Noel Sharkey:


Er, I can’t remember which is which now.