Am I a twit not to Twitter?
OK....I remember a year or so ago saying i'd never join Facebook, and then making myself look a pudding within a month or so when i started using Facebook to keep me in touch with friends after I stop…
Tagged: software-development
You pays peanuts.....
And you get monkeys. I assume most of us have heard this phrase. It's become almost a mantra with me in my professional life because the last 6 months have exposed me to an interesting aspect of the f…
Upgrading to Wordpress 2.5.1 - some notes for the nervous
There's a few basic rules that we can all follow and learn from in life. You know the stuff: Never play cards with a man called Mississipi Slim Always walk a mile in the other mans shoes - you have hi…
PHP Session Variables and AJAX
This one is a beauty... I have recently been writing a web application that combined AJAX and PHP Session Variables. I soon encountered a problem where it appeared that the session variables were no…
ASP.NET Gridview and CSS
Here's a quick tutorial on combining a style sheet with an ASP.NET gridview control. The only reason I've picked on the Gridview control is that I'm using it extensively at the moment. This is somet…
Installing PEAR packages on WAMP
Well, after getting caught out recently with PEAR on a client installation, I thought it a good move to write a short tutorial for anyone who needs to install PEAR packages on their WAMP installation.…
Firefox slacker than IE? Surely some mistake...
I'm currently working with some other developers creating a PHP / SQL Server 2005 based site. The division of work is along the lines of I do PHP and SQL, and they take my less than beautiful code an…
Link Listing in Wordpress
Wordpress supports the 'Blogroll' model for links, which works fine for links but I wanted to be able to put together a series of pages listing links on different subjects for my CommunityNet project.…
Wordpress Template Pages
I use Wordpress to run a few other websites, such as my CommunityHost site, and wanted to add a form to support a mailing list. My hosting company, Servage, supports mailing lists and I've used them …
The sorry saga of varchar(Max) and ODBC in PHP
A project I'm currently working on uses SQL Server 2005 with PHP, the database being accessed via PHP's ODBC library. I have to admit that I love my Stored Procedures, and rather than use 'inline' SQL…