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Start Services Using a Batch File 26 Jan 2012 | 06:57 am
If you use your person computer as a testing server you probably have several services running in the background (a web server, database, caching service, etc). Individually these services tend to hav...
Blast From the Past 21 Nov 2011 | 05:41 pm
Back when WordPress was only 2.7 versions old I published a plugin called WP SimpleMail. It was a rudimentary email client built into the WordPress admin interface. It had a lot of shortcomings – no s...
PHP 5.4 Preview 2 Aug 2011 | 03:10 pm
The alpha release of PHP5.4 came out about a month ago. Along with the release came an announcement containing several of the more important changes, but not much in the way of detail. Here is a quick...
Weekly Function: gethostbyaddr 1 Aug 2011 | 07:41 pm
This function can be used to retrieve the host name for a particular IP address. For example, if you give it the IP address 74.207.242.169 it will output tinsology.net. Just off of the top of my head,...
Don’t Buy Civilization V 27 Jul 2011 | 09:04 am
…unless you want to waste countless potentially productive hours. I should have known from playing Civ II and III that it’s not a game, it’s an addiction. For anyone not aware, Civilization is the mon...
Weekly Function: ctype_digit 21 Jul 2011 | 07:00 pm
I had actually never heard of this function before my random function grabber spit it out, or for that matter any of the ctype functions. What this function does is takes a value and determines if it ...
Weekly PHP Function 21 Jul 2011 | 01:10 pm
Starting this week I’m going to be writing a post about a particular PHP function. Each week a function will be chosen at random from php.net’s Function List and I’ll write about (including but not li...
New Theme! 20 Jul 2011 | 10:32 am
I finally got around to creating a custom theme to replace the old off the shelf one. It’s a modification of the default twentyeleven theme. Feel free to post any comments, criticisms or bug reports.
PHP Donts 3 Jul 2011 | 09:56 pm
The following is a non-comprehensive list (in no particular order) of things I often see people doing while using PHP that they probably shouldn’t. The purpose of this list is to inform; hopefully it ...
Amazon Should Step Up 1 Jul 2011 | 10:02 pm
In the aftermath of Amazon’s decision to drop California residents from their affiliate program I found some interesting discussion on the Associates board. Basically the poster is asking if anyone kn...
