Archive for the ‘Programming’ Category
Introducing “What’s On?”
Last night I put the finishing touches to my mobile phone widget What’s On?.
The widget collects TV data feeds for all (well, most - 237) UK TV channels currently broadcasting today. Using the widget, you can select your desired channel and date to view the schedule for your selection. The widget also allows [...]
ASP character trim function
I was working on an ASP script that required a trim function similar to the PHP function trim($string, $charset);. In PHP, you can start with the word “@apples@” and do print trim($word, “@”); to get “apples” (www.php.net/trim).
In ASP, the trim function doesn’t allow an optional character parameter, so I wrote a character function of my own called “ctrim” that does it…