http://chumby.net What's this? I'm not telling. Thu, 15 May 2008 21:28:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I was recently tasked with creating a simple dirty word filter in PHP that relies on our blacklist of about 600 words. The filter should simply replace the word with its character length in asterisks. My first attempt just used str_replace, but I quickly realized that even dirty words ... http://chumby.net/2008/05/15/replacing-whole-words-in-strings-in-php/ In early August of 2007, a group of 6 dapper young men set about on a week long trek through the wilderness of northern California and southern Oregon. They spent 3 nights surrounded by bears in Crags Castle National Park near Mount Shasta and another 3 frigid nights in ... http://chumby.net/2007/08/16/campfest-2007/ Blizzon might as well be called WoWCon, and since I don't play WoW, I had no idea what the panels were about. I spent a good amount of time just walking around, taking pictures and following the cosplay girls. Take a look at the gallery. http://chumby.net/2007/08/16/blizzcon-07/ http://chumby.net/2007/08/16/chicago/ http://chumby.net/2007/06/05/san-francisco-roadtrip/ http://www.dbphoto.net/techniques/ http://chumby.net/2007/04/10/how-to-fix-moire/ Canyon Park in Monrovia, CA. http://chumby.net/2007/04/09/canyon-park-hike/ Starring Robert Redford, Meryl Streep and Tom Cruise. http://chumby.net/2007/04/07/rocky-peak-hike/ http://chumby.net/2007/03/29/moon/ Following the code that I found here, I made a quick PHP4 class that creates a single sheet Excel file. The class has a download() function that will send the appropriate headers for a binary download. http://chumby.net/2007/03/27/php-excel-export-class/