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I've built a scraping script in PHP to gather information from a particular website. I have tested the script thoroughly with downloaded HTML files from the target website, so the xpath queries are correct. Yesterday I tried the script for the first time locally but targetting the actual website...

Just placed an order, looking forward to seeing what happens! :)

I absolutely fell in love with Toronto after a 2 week holiday there. Amazing city, amazing country.

It's about the perception of value. There are plenty of people that sell a product for more money than someone else. They get away with it because they think the extra money is buying them more value. Put it this way, Apple sell an iPhone for over £500 while Alcatel sell a similar phone for...

I thought the answer to life love and the universe was 42?

Using incognito mode doesn't guarantee you're seeing the data without your previous searches etc skewing results. You should use a completely different browser (like Firefox in your case) without signing in to Google and check it again.

Copyrights and Trademarks are country dependent. In the UK both Pokemon Go and Pokemon are trademarks. I know in China their copyright laws and systems are very complex and often some companies will only hold a trademark for a particular name under a particular type of object. So the Chinese one...

This all depends on the TLD, as it'll be the company or group looking after the TLD who'll have the final say. In a previous life I worked for a youth "charity" (charity for tax reasons) and I came across a website that used our charity's name, and the name was a trademark. I emailed the guy...

God I miss Toronto, and reading things like this just makes me miss it more.

That'll be the sweetest $1.66 you'll ever earn. Congratulations.

If you have a high traffic website you should be looking at a VPS solution. Digital Ocean, Linode are both good providers and offer managed services.

As was mentioned previously developers can smell bullshitters a mile away. Fair enough you have a registered company, VAT etc but it doesn't exactly mean you're legit. And besides, everyone knows you should only spend a cheque when it's cashed, not when it's written. So saying the developer...

This happens all over the place. Companies will pay politicians to "lobby" on specific things in order to get their own way. But you never really hear who pays who what to lobby on something. That's all kept hush hush unless you really dig in to it. It should always be "buyer beware" with any...

It'll buff out.

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's a dildo and it's going to poke you in the eye.

The Cookie Law thing is an utter joke. I think it was the day before it was due to come in to force, the UK Government changed the rules. Before then you needed to seek explicit permission from the user to use cookies. That's no longer true. As long as you inform the user you use cookies then...

Speaking as someone who's worked as a freelance web designer/developer, I would concentrate on building up affiliate sales for your own benefit. Personally I had enough dealing with clients who want the world for the price of a bag of sand and have decided to move in to affiliate marketing...

To be honest I woke up once when I slept on my friends sofa after a long night of drinking, and I got up for a piss in the morning and only when I got to the toilet did I realise my John Wayne was active and ready for duty. Turns out my mate's girlfriend walked in on me when I was asleep and...

I sort of understand this. Like I said in my post if you don't know what you're doing with a computer you may not have the skills needed to troubleshoot issues in Linux. That said once you fix an issue with a dependency of some software, the next time you have the problem you usually have it...

I first started using Linux in 2004, and only used it about 10% of the time. Now I use it 95% of the time for everything I do. I do have a dual-boot PC with Windows 7 which is just for gaming (like Sim City 3000, Championship Manager etc). If you're not used to Linux I would recommend Linux...