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Updated the ChangeLog Generator to 1.7… See http://blog.hozzamedia.com/website-design/applications/changelog-generator/

When arrays are built by user input. You can sometimes experience ”blank” values within that array. Sometimes set to “0″, “FALSE” or “NULL”.

You can use array_filter to remove empty (NULL) elements:

$emptyRemoved = array_filter($linksArray);

If you have (int) 0 in your array, you may use the following:

$emptyRemoved = remove_empty($linksArray);

function remove_empty($array) {
 return array_filter($array, '_remove_empty_internal');
 }

function _remove_empty_internal($value) {
 return !empty($value) || $value === 0;
 }

Maybe your elements are not empty per say but contain one or more spaces… You can use the following before using array_filter

$trimmedArray = array_map('trim', $linksArray);

Sourced from: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3654295/remove-empty-array-elements

I’ve noticed that there’s a lot of interest out there right now in encryption, and rightfully so. It seems that strong encryption will play an increasingly large role in the future of computer security.
Unfortunately, I’ve also noticed a fair bit of confusion. My goal in this article is to clear that up, and provide a starting point for those of us interested in the field.

Encoding,Encryption, and Hashes.
Although you’ll often see these terms used interchangably, it is important to understand the differences. We’ll begin with the most common, encryption.
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Been looking into source control and version control software to help manage and organise some of our code. The majority of them don’t seem to fit our workflow and are to restrictive/complicated. I’m a massive fan of the good old ChangeLog (https://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Changelog) which does not scale well with large projects.

So, I’ve built a little “one page” script (technically a few pages if you include images for the GUI). That me and my n3rds use. Nice and simple app to manage a ChangeLog for a large project or site.

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Found this amazing site, its got loads of repeating patterns and simply a beautiful webiste. Thought you might be interested…

http://subtlepatterns.com/

Just a quick tip, you can easily reset an array with…

array_merge(array(),$array);

An extremely simple solution to a surprisingly elusive problem. To perfectly center a DIV on an HTML page simply use the following approach.
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Right, after a lot of unsuccessful googling I came across a solution to the new Linux Ubuntu’s new UI Unity not working in WMware Fusion.

The reason Unity does not work is something to do with the ‘accelerated hardware/graphics’ not being compatible at this moment. And, finally there is a solution to this.

Unity is a 3D UI hence the extra acceleration needed. So.. we can install a 2D version, which from what i understand is completely the same (just without all the whistles and bangs).

First we need to add the 2D repository to our Ubuntu’s software manager. In terminal type:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:unity-2d-team/unity-2d-daily

Then we need to update Ubuntu’s app cache:
sudo apt-get update

And finally install the new 2D version of Unity:
sudo apt-get install unity-2d-default-settings

Then restart and choose Unity 2D from the Session options at the bottom right when you next login.

Before

During

After

Just a quick note for boredom and Linux Terminal (I SSH to mine of course):

if($you == BORED) echo 'screw with linux terminal';

I would suggest you try out:

• Lynx – a terminal website browser
• cmatrix – terminal matrix thingy
• greed – a kinda terminal puzzle game
• moon-buggy – a terminal platform game
• nethack – a full-on hard core (really need to be a massive n3rd to play it, I only lasted 10mins before I gave up) cave exploration game

To install any of them just use the classic:
sudo apt-get install APP_NAME
*replace APP-NAME with the program you want.