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.

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 →

How to check if an ISBN is valid in Perl or JavaScript

The cool thing about an ISBN is that its last digit is a "check digit", which validates the rest of the number. How does it work? "It is calculated on a modulus 11 with weights 10-2, using X in lieu of 10 where ten would occur as a check digit." More info. Read more →

Computer namer

Last week I was working with rails, and decided to test how much I had learnt to date. I picked a small website idea I had had aeons ago, and wanted to see how quickly and easily I could put it together in rails. Read more →

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