RIM outlook is grim. Ford sees industry sales stabilizing. Kindle still in the news. When will it end? Author’s Guild is irked that the Kindle will talk to you. Yahoo re-introducing BOSS. Darwin Day coming,  Strange facts about Darwin listed here. VMWare might be a target from Cisco. Horrible working conditions in China, so they say. Where is America’s CTO? SanDisk going after flash market in a big way.

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Too many Kindle stories today. Why? Google wants to get in on the smart grid program. Microsoft Windows 7 beta stopped in its tracks. No multi-touch on G1 because of Apple. $99 iPhone coming this summer. FAA computers hacked. More mobile data to be used in Europe than USA. Nokia 5800 getting ink. Global warming pushing birds further North.IBM and Juniper in Bed. MSFT gets its 10,000 patent.

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Kindle II rolled out. Nothing special. Google now syncs mail and calendar with iPhone. New AMD tri-core released. Kaspersky hacked! Apple beginning of the end. Fake Dalai Lama on Twitter. Mozilla getting cocky. I go off on a weird planted story.

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Windows 7 has more issues. Privacy groups complain about Latitude being a stalkers tool. Steve Wozniak getting back into the game. Bill Gates releases mosquitoes at TED. Xbox360 and Netflix deal worked out. Painting your room different colors. Microsoft not doing a smart phone. MySpace nets 90,000 sexual offenders. T-Mobile markets an 8-megapixel phone. Who cares? Norway drops legal complaints against Apple. Wolves have a lot of sex with dogs it seems. Lenovo gets rid of CEO. MySQL co-founder quits SUN.

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Say you are fetching news article data from a database and want to “highilight” (or in this example make bold) specific keywords in the article abstract. Once we have our news article data we need to fetch our keyword data which can also come from a database (recommended) or it could be stored locally in an array.


while($array = pg_fetch_assoc($result))
{
  while($array_key = pg_fetch_assoc($result_key))
  {
    foreach($akeywords as $sphrase)
      $sbody = str_replace($sphrase, "<strong>" . $sphrase . "< /strong >", $soverview);
  }
  pg_result_seek($result_key, 0);
}


Assuming $akeywords is your array of keywords and $sbody is the body of text you want to “highlight”. For each keyword you have the body of text is parsed and if a match is found, a starting <strong> tag is added before the keyword and a closing </strong> tag is added after.

This is a very simple piece of code but it can really come in handy in a number of projects.

- Nicholas

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Palm Pre pumping up the stock. Second day of news about the crackpot Singularity University. Cults emerge when there is no work to be had. June 12 should be real date DTV transition. Google Latitude is in the news. Negative stories about Windows 7, finally! Facebook is five years old. Cisco good news and bad news. Why the Feds should embrace the cloud. Motorola hopes to become a trendsetter again? Is Eric Schmidt the next David Geffen?

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Windows 7 getting too much ink with new buzz-term "ecosystems." Meanwhile, they cannot bring out one good version. Sun hopes to save the company with the cloud. Cell phones kills man. Moto no moto. Google getting in trouble in Europe. Carol Bartz throwing weight around. G1 users getting voice search. Crazy Singularity University crops up.

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Microsoft says Win 7 does not need a second beta. Propaganda machine cranked up. Google getting slammed with negative publicity. I’m suspicious. Alaskan volcano still going to blow. Flash on the iPhone coming, finally! GoDaddy Ad hits home run. New quad core iMac coming? The design will be interesting. DTV delay may still happen. Microsoft stealing people from Yahoo. Dell Smartphone in the news. Panasonic getting hammered. Nokia to leave Finland? Michael Dell featured in NYT article.

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So here I sit at a friends super bowl party, having just installed his wireless router and gotten all of us online I am here blogging. Yeah I know I am a total geek but then again this is For the Love of Geeks…

Here I am wearing my 3D glasses! (Although, a bit early)


I am just goofing off on my Ubuntu laptop while the steak (for steak tacos) is cooking. We are just hanging out, having some drinks and watching Faith Hill sing the national anthem. Hopefully it will be an interesting game!

All of us at For The Love of Geeks hope that all of our readers are all having a wonderful and geeky Super Bowl!

- Nicholas

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