Just when you thought the mainstream media couldn’t get more convoluted and controlled, on April 14th, 2008, the Associated Press announced their new members for their board of directors. The Associated Press is the last remaining nationally oriented news service in the United States. It is a service that can reproduce stories that are published… Read more »
Posts By: David Drake
PHP and Regex – Replacing Repeating Characters with Single Characters in a String
[Update] – a comment left by TLP gives a much better solution to the problem that seems to be better in benchmarks as well. I’m changing the post to reflect the best and fastest method for the situation described. In a previous post, I described a situation where we needed to remove a repeating dot… Read more »
PHP and Regex – How to Replace or Remove a Repeating Character
While at work I came to an interesting conundrum when trying to validate/clean user names for the application I work on. Here is a description of the restrictions we put on our user names: “ID may consists of A-Z, a-z, 0-9, underscores, and a single dot (.).” While the project development staff is extremely talented,… Read more »
Professional Technologist
My name is David Drake. I am a father and technologist who revels in creating things and tackling difficult problems.
Appreciator of the outdoors. Enjoyer of good humans, cooking, aromatic coffee, and plants. Actor for many years. Very fond of science; particularly astronomy and quantum physics. Likes to grow things and travel. Commodore 64 tattoo. Fan of PBS, Apple, and The NY Times. Constantly learning and loves to teach.
Everything I say is my own opinion and not representative of any organization.