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History on the doorstep – part II
Today I was again at the old dam I commented on in August. Meanwhile, the demolition has started, as shown on the pictures. As you can see, the barrage has been dug up in the middle, so the Eifgen creek can pass more or less unchecked again. A part of the accrued debris has been…
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Resizing images in Flash
Lately, I was working on a website which should have a neat Flash menu with funny jumping graphics. Now, they should be real bitmaps, not vectors. So when I wanted to let my images jump, whereby they should also change in size a little, I encountered a problem: The images only looked well at a…
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Live Ajax PHP regex tester
Yesterday I was close to a nervous breakdown, because my beloved PHP regex tester, formerly to be found at http://nancywalshee03.freehostia.com/, doesn’t exist any more. So I shorthand created another gem of dirty programming work and wrote a new one quickly, to be found at http://www.ginchen.de/regextester/. It uses preg_match_all() to find the needle in the haystack…
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Large images in WordPress
Yet another small, but annoying problem solved: Since sometime ago (allegedly since version 2.5 – I haven’t noticed it until 2.6), WordPress has started to scale all larger images, which were added in the editor by clicking “add image”, down to a width of 500 pixels. This will also happen, if you even chose “full size” in…
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Mondo Verde – Grüne Welt
Today I was in “Mondo Verde”, a theme park in the Dutch town Landgraaf, where natural and cultural landscapes are imitated. Within a few hours you can walk from England to Italy, from Russia to Australia or from China straight into the South American Jungle and marvel at the prevailing animal and plant world. You…
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History on the doorstep & the original guilt
Today I visited the old dam on the Eifgen creek, which is located only few kilometers from here in the forest. It was built in 1906, and as far as I know, it had served a great part of Burscheid as drinking water supply for many years. The last time I was there was already…