Lately, while snooping around within old coding stuff, I rediscovered an ancient treasure: the PostScript programming language. It's older than dirt and situated deep down under the bottom of Adobe's PDF technology. Intended to be an efficient and highly flexible printer instruction language, it's actually a Turing-complete programming language, based on a very clear and suprisingly simple stack-oriented concept, outputting geometric results to suitable devices.  → read more …

Indeed, it is! Accidentally, while testing some random stuff against my IDN validatior function, I found out that the word bullshit is the result of the Punycode Algorithm applied to the Unicode sequence U+37F0 U+37E6 U+37F3 U+37EE U+37EC U+37E0.  → read more …

Starting 10 December 2009, companies and private persons based in the European Union will be able to register.eu Internationalised Domain Names  → read more …

Donnerstag, 15.10.2009, 16:14 Uhr.
Ein unspektakulärer Arbeitstag neigt sich dem Ende zu. Im Posteingang erscheint eine Verlautbarung der DENIC-Mitgliederliste. Von einem BGH-Urteil ist die Rede, von neuen Domainrichtlinien. Da per Gerichtsbeschluss die Registrierung der Domain vw.de angeordnet wurde, sollen auch vergleichbare Domainnamen freigegeben werden, die bisher nicht zugelassen waren: 1- und 2-stellige Domains, Zifferndomains, sowie Toplevel-Domains und deutsche Autokennzeichen.  → read more …

wow, the one and only legendary good old DHTML Color Calculator has been translated into Polish  → read more …

did they change their api or what? did I miss something? 8-{ Today my good old paypal ipn script failed to post back to www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr in order to verify a payment notification as usual...  → read more …