Category: Code snippets

November 13, 2022

Introducing the Code Clipper desktop app

I’ve only recently come across Wails; a really great solution to creating desktop applications using web technologies and the Go language. It allows you to rapidly create applications that are cross-platform, using your favourite front-end framework (Svelte, React, etc.) or vanilla js which communicates with a Go backend. I had never tried anything with Go, nor had I used Svelte...

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March 19, 2019

WCAG colour checker

About five years ago I created a small PHP class that would check the contrast of a foreground and background colour and give a report on whether it was accessible in accordance with the WCAG recommendations (so either AA or AAA compliant). I’ve recently had cause to dig out that script which gave me the opportunity to also create a...

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November 20, 2017

Git and Windows; file path too long – fix!

I ran into an issue today with Git and Windows… I was trying to do a pull from a repo and it kept failing because one of the file paths was too long. Very frustrating! Thankfully there was a simple fix; just running this from the shell: git config –system core.longpaths true

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July 22, 2017

Filter an array of objects

Quite often I might have an array of objects, be it from a db query or some json object, and I want to filter that list in a particular way.  Lots of times I would find myself doing the same old thing; creating a new array, looping and looping until all I had left was what matched my filter. I’m...

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February 17, 2014

Counters in CSS: making a table of contents list

As I’m sure you know, you can create an ordered bullet point list but it has limitations.  For example, if I wanted to have a table of contents so that the numbering goes 1, 1.1, 1.2, 1.2.1, 1.2.2, 1.2.3, 1.2.3.1 and so on then the standard ordered list just isn’t going to cut it.  Oh, sure, you could reset the...

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November 28, 2013

Tweeting on a button press with the Raspberry Pi

A while ago my door bell broke. So I did what any sensible person would; I decided that instead of buying a new one I would hook up an old bell I had to a Raspberry Pi and have the bell ring when someone pushed a button on my door. But then I though, “well, that’s a bit boring.  My...

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November 18, 2013

Easy page scraping with Zend\Dom (from Zend Framework 2)

The other day I was interested in getting some information from the sussex.academia.edu site, specifically I wanted a list of tags for each of the faculty members. Now, this sounds relatively easy except when you consider that initial page contains a list of links to various schools/departments people have listed, and then under each of those pages you have different fieldsets...

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April 13, 2012

Handy little function

Quite often I find myself wanting to run the same script by either cli or through a browser. But I don’t want to fill my echo statements with <br /> tags if I’m on cli because that’d just look ugly, but at the same time I don’t just want to use \n when outputting in the browser because everything would...

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September 26, 2011

Merge two urls using PHP

This is a handy function for combining two urls. The urls could be strings or parts in an array (as you’d get from the parse_url function), or you can mix-and-match. Check out the examples in the docblock below to see what I mean. loading gist…

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April 8, 2011

Sorting an array of objects by one or more object property

Quite often I find myself having an array of objects and needing to sort that array of objects by property (either one property or multiple)… Imagine, for example, getting a large result set from your database and ordering in the query just takes too long. Or perhaps you’re getting results from a web service and that service doesn’t return the...

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