Concatenating arrays in PHP
Just a quick post so I know where to look the next time I forget how to concatenate arrays in PHP. Use array_merge to concatenate two numerically-indexed arrays; not array_push and not the array union...
View ArticleThe MacBook Pro’s not so bad…
Two years after moaning about my MacBook Pro I figure it’s time for an update: It’s not so bad… Thanks to various blog comments I managed to solve most of the niggles I had with the laptop: muted the...
View ArticleBloody hosting providers
Choosing a hosting provider can be a difficult process, especially when you’re on a budget. I’m heavily involved with ewelike, a product information and price-comparison site that we’re slowly...
View ArticleGoogle: Where art thou time conversion?
I love the fact you can use Google to perform basic calculations and conversions. Once you know your currency codes, currency conversion couldn’t be simpler: 100 USD in GBP And Maths? As well as your...
View ArticleRefactoring vs Rewriting (preamble)
The say the path to recovery starts with admitting you have a problem. I wish our problem was code-rot, or a simple case of a good design gone horribly wrong through bodged maintenance and hacks. (If...
View ArticleSVN log message encoding problem
It’s good practice to put useful commentary in the log message whenever you commit code to a repository. Today, I wrote a log message about centigrade and farenheit conversions, using the proper degree...
View ArticlePHP Session Management (grievance 2)
Sometimes PHP surprises you with an easy-to-use feature, like sessions. Sessions are quite easy to use in PHP. One call to @session_start(), and you have a magic global called $_SESSION to store data...
View ArticleGetting git to work on OS X Tiger
If you haven’t heard of git yet, it’s quickly becoming the preferred version-control system for tons of open-source projects, including the twin suns of ruby on rails and prototype. In fact, if you...
View ArticleAll-in-one cookie function
Users stumbling across jQuery may notice the API’s designed so a method’s behaviour varies depending on the number and type of arguments passed in a call (have a look at the jQuery method!). In the...
View ArticleAppleScript – a frustrating beginning
Academia and professional work has exposed me to a few different programming paradigms: functional, logical, procedural and object-orientated. I usually get along fine with a new paradigm, starting off...
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