This is the personal blog of Neil Ang. Simple and interesting technology articles written by a developer for developers. Feel free to comment on posts or link to this site. Constructive feedback is always welcomed.

Redirect to iPhone site with htaccess

This is my implementation of how to redirect to an iPhone optimised website using Apache rewrite rules and cookies. Although this redirect can be achieved easily through server-side scripting, websites that implement heavy page caching need to redirect at the request level. Read more →

How to create a spell checking web spider

Recently I found out my employer was paying a third-party company to regularly check the spelling on their website and send them a monthly report. So I thought I would write a simple spider that could to do the same thing and save them money. Read more →

Validate an ISSN using Perl or JavaScript

Last week I wrote about validating an ISBN, so this week I thought I would post the code to validate an ISSN. Read more →

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