Random Featured Article for Wikipedia (And the Making Thereof)
Wednesday, May 27, 2009I’ve been to the wonderful resource that is Wikipedia a lot, and I’ve always particularly enjoyed pressing the random article button. However, I’ve always been a little annoyed when I keep arriving at three sentence paragraph “stubs” (what Wikipedia calls articles that need great improvement), which unfortunately make up the majority of Wikipedia. So I decided to make a program that instead of selecting any article, only generates random featured articles, which are supposed to be the best of Wikipedia.
A Smart 404 Page in PHP
Wednesday, April 15, 2009This blog entry is technical, and intended for people who own websites that use PHP. Today we look how to make the sweetest 404 page ever, one that allows you to help your users figure out what went wrong rather than just give them a bland page. Check it out!