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Archive | March, 2010
Watch the Large Hadron Collider Experiments LIVE at 8:30am this morning
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Geneva, Switzerland will perform the first-ever proton collision this morning at 8:30am our time. This is truly a remarkable day for science and the best thing is, you can watch it live on the CERN website. Five webcasts will be available today and the main webcast will include live footage from the control rooms for the LHC accelerator and all four LHC experiments and coverage of the press conference to announce the first collisions. Enough to excite the “inner-geek” in you!
myScoop slowly climbing the ranks
It would appear that myScoop’s popularity is steadily growing (atleast according to Alexa). I thought I would take the time to share the below graph with myScoop’s supporters. Thanks guys!
myScoop has a new home!
myScoop has moved over to its new host with only a few glitches here and there. The near-seamless transition took place during the hours of 8pm on Saturday 13 March to around 6am on the 14 March. This new host has tons more power than the previous and allows for a larger amount of bandwidth usage which makes way for more innovative features that you will be seeing soon. The host is also running off a more secure backend which in turn means more security for you.
Extracting a domain name with PHP and Regular Expressions
As most of your know, regular expressions can be a nightmare if you don’t know much about the subject. Here is a quick tutorial on how you can extract the domain name from any URL using regular expressions and PHP. This includes http:// and https:// domain names. <?php $link1 = "http://nickduncan.co.za/"; $link2 = "http://nickduncan.co.za"; [...]
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