The Cheezy Blog

Roman Cortés has done an exceptional image of Homer Simpson using just CSS styled text.

Ned Batchelder has added some JQuery magic to the image to show how it’s put together.

Recently Facebook has started adding notifications about your friends using applications to your news feed. This can clutter it up with 500 people biting each others with the Vampire application, or dozens of notices about people taking some random quiz. To make matters worse, these notifications take up a fair bit of space, with a big picture next to each entry.

This simple Greasemonkey script transparently removes these notifications from your news feed, as well as the sponsored news feed entry adverts.

Note this also works in Opera.

Visit the Facebook App Spam Remover Page to download it now!

The latest version of HellaWorld, the best web interface available for HellaNZB is now available for download. It contains important bug fixes and some shiny new features.

You can see the changelog for more information or go straight to the HellaWorld page to download it.

HellaWorld 1.7 is now available for immediate download. This release contains a few bug fixes and a few new features, see the changelog for more information.

This release is revision 102 in the Subversion repository.

HellaWorld Page

HelloHella has now been renamed to HellaWorld, coinciding with the release of version 1.6 which includes many new features and bug fixes. This release is revision 80 in the SVN repository.

When I wrote HelloHella I was unaware of a Python web interface for HellaNZB called HellaHella. I decided to rename mine as the names were too similar, and I didn’t want to be accused of name plagiarism.

I recommend everyone update immediately.

It’s taken nearly 3 years, but PHP4 has finally been announced as End of Life. Hopefully this means wider acceptance of PHP5 amongst the hosting community.

Just in time for PHP6 eh.

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So, you want to learn the Python programming language but can’t find a concise and yet full-featured tutorial. This tutorial will attempt to teach you the basics of Python in 10 minutes.

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PHP5 has been out for 3 years now, but the majority of web hosting providers will still only support PHP4. The PHP community has decided that it is time to move forward, together. To this end they have produced the site GoPHP5.org, which lists various cornerstones of the PHP development community such as PHPMyAdmin and Drupal, as well as several web hosts who are supporting the initiative. Effective February 5th, 2008, any new feature releases for these projects will have a minimum version requirement of at least PHP 5.2.0, with the idea being to force web hosts to update to the newer, better version.

This is great news, I can only hope that more projects, maybe even Wordpress, will join in.

All this, and it’ll be just in time for PHP6.

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The Subversion repository for this site has moved, the repositories are now located at http://svn.cheezyblog.net/. If you’re using the svn version of any of my software, please switch to the new location accordingly.

Although it’s only been a short amount of time since the 1.4 release of HelloHella. I’m pleased to announce the availability of HelloHella 1.5.

This release contains a couple of bug fixes over the previous releases, and also has a lot of performance boosts.

Head over to the Change log for more info on this release or proceed directly to the download page.