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December 21, 2009

Pointless error message

Just ran a bit of SQL on Oracle and this was the oh-so helpful error message I got back: Warning: ociexecute() [function.ociexecute]: OCIStmtExecute: ORA-00932: inconsistent datatypes: expected BINARY got BINARY So you’re expecting a binary value and what you got was a binary value, but that’s inconsistent with the binary value you were expecting to be binary?!

Databases Comments: 0

December 7, 2009

PHP Team Development book review

So I’ve finally finished the book! OK, I finished it a couple weeks ago but haven’t had a chance to post up a review yet. Of course, I had every intention of finishing it a lot earlier considering I was flying for nine hours to the States and then another few hours on to Mexico – and the journey back...

General Comments: 0

September 30, 2009

PHP Team Development (book)

The other day I had a new book sent to me called PHP Team Development, written by Samisa Abeysinghe and published by Packt Publishing. Unfortunately, it arrived at work when I was on holiday so I haven’t been able to have a look at it yet. :-/ However, I’m back today and have the book in my hands (well, not...

General/PHP Comments: 0

March 24, 2009

Zend Framework hidden gems

Sometimes you come across hidden little gems in the Zend Framework that save you time, even if that’s just down to the amount of text you need to type. The Zend_View holds one of these little gems… Did you know that you can use the short php open tags and echo tag in your view scripts, and you don’t even...

Zend Framework Comment: 1

February 17, 2009

Text box ‘hint’ values with jQuery

On creating a rather large form recently, I was in the need to have some kind of hint to the user about what format the content should take on several input boxes. I could have done this with a description under the form element, but a more accepted way to do this, it seems, is to have a ‘hint’ in...

javascript/jQuery Comments: 4

February 15, 2009

Shorten urls automatically with a Zend Framework filter

I think we can all agree that URL shortening services are great and are very handy to tidy up those long and obnoxious links. However, a lot of the time people simply forget to use them, or often don’t know about them in the first place. I’ve noticed this in a blog system I wrote using Zend Framework. On one...

PHP/Zend Framework Comments: 0

February 13, 2009

1234567890

Tonight at 11:31 and 30 seconds (GMT) it will be exactly 1234567890 in unix time. Cool, eh? 🙂

General Comment: 1

January 29, 2009

Easy table sorting with jQuery

I came across a jQuery plug-in the other day to sort tables, and it works great and is exceptionally simple to implement (and as anyone who’s flicked through this blog knows, I like the simple things in life… Don’t need any more gray hairs popping up, you know!). The plug-in is called tablesorter (found at tablesorter.com), by Christian Bach.

General/javascript/jQuery Comments: 3

January 28, 2009

Highlight external links with jQuery

A little while ago I posted a quick jQuery plug-in that allows you to easily indicate an external link. Then I posted an updated version that had a few optimizations. Well, it turns out that I had missed out a rather important portion of the code when I posted it up. D’oh! So here’s the full and working version.

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January 28, 2009

Simple pleasures with jQuery

Somethings it’s the simple things in life that make you really happy. For me yesterday, that was thanks to jQuery. Have you ever wanted to have a check box that, when the user checks it it also checks a lot of other checkboxes? Yeah, of course you have! I wanted to do that yesterday. Now, it’s not the first time...

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