Personal blog of Yzmir Ramirez

So while I was at it made this PHP urlEncode urlDecode Tool because I keep forgetting to bookmark other sites’ urlencode/urldecoders.  Also because the Mac version of Hackbar in Firefox doesn’t have the same options as the Window’s version.

I needed to send an email with human readable string of the difference between two timestamps, so I made this little tool:

PHP TimeDiff Tool

I updated my tools page.  The php timestamp converter tool has been updated to use timezone_identifiers_list() (i.e. ‘America/New_York’), now instead of hard-coded offsets.

Also moved all the scripts into one directory here.

When I get bored again I’ll add some more.  I actually use these from work so it’s really just a convenience for me.

Here’s a great website that easily generates all those animated GIFs you use during AJAX calls to indicate to the user something is happening.  From their website:

Create easily your own ajax loader icon :

1. Select the type of indicator you want
2. Enter the background code color you want
   (tick “Transparent background” if you don’t want one
3. Enter the foreground code color you want

Press “Generate it”

Enjoy.

Ever wondered if your browser is fast enough?  Ever wanted to benchmark your browser?  Well there’s this tool called Futuremark that will do that for you.  Here’s a summary:

Futuremark’s aim with this benchmark is to put an end to the so-called “browser wars” by removing subjective opinions or analysis of performance with too much room for variability such as loading times.

ZoomTypically, a newly released browser will be subdued to the well known Acid3 web standards test but there are few universally used benchmarks which measure the performance of common web page functions. Peacekeeper is a purely JavaScript-driven benchmark and therefore only tests JavaScript functions. It does not test actual web page loading times and is therefore not affected by connection speeds and the variation that can occur there, nor does it test things like Flash.

Here’s a little utility I made to help with doing regular expressions.

PHP preg_match, preg_replace Tool

Here’s a little tool for converting Unix Timestamps and dates around.  With it you can:

• Convert a Unix timestamp into a Human Readable date
• Convert Date parts into a Unix timestamp
• Convert a Long Date into a Unix timestamp

Unix Timestamp Converter