Andy's blog o' goodness – Page 9 – php, web stuff, raspberry pi… even blacksmithing!

January 1, 2009

Happy New Year!

Hope everyone has a wonderful new year!

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December 9, 2008

…huh?

Screen shot of an error message I got from a popular MySQL interface. ?!

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November 23, 2008

What a productive day!

You know how sometimes you have those awesome productive days? Well, mine has been one of those… Got up at 6:45am (yeah, thank my little boy for that one! :-P) and figured I might as well stay up, so unloaded the dishwasher, put in another load, cleaned the house from top to bottom, entertained friends for lunch, wrote my first...

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November 23, 2008

jQuery plug-in – highlight external links

I’m pretty new to the whole jQuery game, having really only started to look at in a number of weeks ago. Until then I have been happily using Prototype and Scriptaculous, and as I knew them I didn’t see a point to move to another library. However, the more examples I saw of jQuery the more elegant I thought it...

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September 23, 2008

Quick and easy email encoding view helper

Here’s a quick and easy view helper for Zend Framework that will encode an email address. It will encode just an email address or return a whole mailto link. The encoding is basically the same as in the Smarty template engine. Obviously there’s a lot of room for improvement; javascript encoding, representation as an image, and so on… but then...

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August 8, 2008

Finally!!!

It’s been too long in the coming, and to be honest, I’d given up waiting for this game thanks to that darned World of Warcraft taking up all of Blizzard’s time, but Diablo III is in the making!!! http://www.blizzard.com/diablo3/ Can’t wait! 🙂

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August 1, 2008

Zend Framework 1.6RC1

If you haven’t heard already, Zend Framework 1.6RC1 is out and has lots of interesting new features. Finally there’s a SOAP component (seemed odd to me to have an enterprise-level framework without it!) There’s also a paginator, XML configs can have attributes, Dojo integration and lots more. It’s been out for about 10 days as of the time I write...

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July 15, 2008

Application running really slow

While working on an application built on Zend Framework, I experienced a really odd slow-down of the system while running on the web cluster at work as opposed to my machine at home. I couldn’t see what the issue was myself, and it seemed to baffle people on #zftalk a bit as well as work colleagues. The speed difference was...

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June 15, 2008

Email address being used to spam

Some little *insert a whole stream of expletives* has used my email address as the sender of a lot of spam. I know this because opening my email box today resulted in no less than 400 failure notices, undelivered notices, auto replies and bounce messages. Needless to say; I was not the one sending you spam!

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June 11, 2008

Happy New Year!

…huh?

What a productive day!

jQuery plug-in – highlight external links

Quick and easy email encoding view helper

Finally!!!

Zend Framework 1.6RC1

Application running really slow

Email address being used to spam

Tag cloud view helper