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June 18, 2011

Dreamhost and procmail – parsing your mail with a script

I have a Dreamhost account and have done for some while. Typically I’m happy with their service, but yesterday was the first real frustration I had with them. I wanted to use procmail to send email to a script for processing. I was sure I had done this before on Dreamhost, but couldn’t seem to get it to work in...

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May 15, 2011

Using CSS3 sucks (right now, but I’m sure it’ll get better)

Am I the only one to think that using a number of aspects of CSS3 right now really sucks? The potential it offers is great, but does anyone really think doing something like this for a gradient is a productive use of time? [code lang=”css”] background: #9880cc; /* Old browsers */ background: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #9880cc 0%, #bab3cc 93%); /* FF3.6+ */...

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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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October 31, 2010

Extend Zend_View_Stream to easily escape view variables

Zend_View_Stream is used pretty much when ever you use Zend_View, and I’ve blogged about how handy it is before. But as it’s a class like any other, you can extend it to give added functionality. One such use is to add automatic escaping to your view variables when you want. So instead of doing: [code lang=”php”] <?php echo $this->escape($this->var); ?>...

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October 10, 2010

Today’s date is the answer

The date today is 10/10/10. 101010 in binary is 42 which is, as we all know, the answer to life the universe and everything in it.

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October 9, 2010

PHPNW

Usually I’m a total wallflower at conferences, gravitating to only the people I know. This time round I’m trying to change that and speak to people, ask speakers questions, and all that. Right now, though, I’m enjoying dinner. 🙂

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October 8, 2010

PHPNW Conference 2010

Going to be travelling to the PHPNW Conference today (it’s tomorrow, but I don’t fancy catching the stupidly early train to get there on time), but going over the schedule is a pain… There are just too many good talks! How can I possibly go see them all?! The 11:15 time slot is easy, that’ll be Rob Allen’s talk on...

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September 30, 2010

Keeping Zend Studio’s version of Zend Framework in sync with Zend Server CE (on Windows)

Today I updated my install Zend Server CE. I have to say that the ease of installing PHP, Apache and MySQL with Zend Server CE is amazing, and then configuring PHP’s extensions and directives with the provided interface is simply a dream! (Really wish I could afford the full Zend Server, but that’s another matter…) One thing that irked me,...

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May 7, 2010

HTPC build – the parts, they be comin’

Actually, for the most part I have gotten the parts. The only thing I’m waiting on now is the CPU (together with a tube of Arctic Silver 5 compound) and the wifi card. Hopefully they’ll come soon, because not having the CPU is a bit of a show-stopper. However, the case…

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May 4, 2010

HTPC build!

A while ago my wife asked me if it were possible to remove all the DVDs we had on a couple shelves and put them in the loft and ‘somehow’ put them on to the computer so we could watch the movies… naturally my mind went straight to building or buying a media centre/HTPC. After looking around I found some...

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