Month: February 2005

Tech problem

One for the PHP developers on my friends list, because I’m completely stumped.

Set-up is PHP on IIS, connecting to a SQL server 7 database.

The problem is an interesting one – different data is being generated depending on the browser that accesses the page. I have an “artist” object, on of the properties of which is “name”. If I load the page in Firefox, the “name” property has the value I’d expect. If I load the page in IE, the “name” property is blank, despite the fact that all the other data for the object has been loaded. The data all comes from the same stored procedure call. This isn’t a browser rendering error – the source code for the page is different depending on which browser looks at it, and echoing the raw data before any HTML comes back gets different resuklts depending on the browser.

Anyone ever run across this? IIS/PHP behving differently depening on which browser access it?

Take A Pretty Picture…

Anyone feel like wandering around somewhere interesting in London with me while I take photos, either on Saturday or Monday (or both)? I’m running short of photos to post, and need to get a bit ahead of myself again. I can offer coffee/drinks/reasonably cheap food somewhere (depending on time of day/location/what we feel like doing) as well as sparkling conversation[1] in exchange for the company…

(If you can think of anywhere to go, that’s good, too. Otherwise, I’m just going to head for somewhere in zone 1 at random.)

[1] Well, conversation, anyway.

Words about words

Another note to self, abut you’ll all probably enjoy it. Alan Moore interviewed, and being typically clever and interesting.

Photoslut

I’m still whoring for viewers for electricana. Aside from a week’s inabilty to upload photos, I’ve managed to keep to my five-a-week goal, and remain optimistic about doing so.

So, what I thought I’d do at the end of each month is pick the top four photos, make some brief comment on them, and try and see if anyone’s willing to circulate it a little wider, on their own LJs and blogs. So, here you go. The code to reproduce this is under the cut tag, if anyone would like to pass it on, as it were. If people are seriously pissed off by the prospect of something like this turning up on their friends page once a month, I’ll filter/cut it, but I’d rather leave this as a public post. So…

Electricana: January ’05

Under Electric Light
It’s a simple enough shot, this one, but I like the combination of the lines of the brickwork, and the way they draw the eye down to the light, and the colours. And y’know, it’s a neon light. I love neon lights.

Awakening
Sometimes, you really don’t need to work to get a good photo. I work up early one morning, and the bands of colour in the sunrise did all the hard work for me.

Light of Knowledge
The reaction to this one caught me by surprise. I honestly felt that this was a “well, it’ll do” sort of shot – the composition is slightly off, and the light effect isn’t quite what I was looking for. But it seems people like it. Another one where the scenery did all the work.

An Otherwise Dull Day
Another neon sign, and another simple composition, but this time it’s the limited range of colours here that I like, the way that the neon sign stands out. It feels like quite a New York photo to me, which is odd as it was taken right beside Sloane Square tube.

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