Archive for the ‘PHP’ Category

Demystifying Binary And Hex

Thursday, October 15th, 2009

I recently started an Open university course. It has been a long time since I studied and I really need to buckle down and learn how to do it again.

While browsing the OU forums recently I came across a post from people who could not get their head around binary and Hex. The following is the explanation I provided, it seems to have helped some so maybe it will help the wider community as well
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Wordpress Whos Online Plugin

Sunday, June 7th, 2009

Sometime ago I had posted about a Wordpress plugin that enables you to see how many users you have on your blog. Well good news, I have now released an updated version with all new features. Not only this but the plugin now has a new home. (more…)

Need Help Developing Your Sites?

Sunday, May 3rd, 2009

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Unfortunately I have had no choice but to scrap the idea. Only 2 people have expressed any interest in this idea. This was very disappointing to be honest.

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Hey all.

As many of you know I am a team leader over at Namepros. Well recently Namepros has updated to the latest version of vBulletin.

As part of this upgrade are social groups. Most people decided to spam these and create silly groups (like all new features people like to play with them). Well the groups got me thinking.

Like many people I am good at 1 certain aspect of developing sites (PHP) but am not so good at design for example. This is usually the problem people have. Well I came up with an idea! (more…)

Wordpress wordspew vulnerable

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009

Came home from work today and have started getting a lot of alerts regarding nefarious URL’s being requested on this very blog.

Luckily enough I have SEO egghead’s Firewall Plugin (more…)

PHP Arch Announce Webinars

Saturday, January 24th, 2009

As usual I was going through my RSS feeds and came across an article released by PHP Architect. In preperation of PHP Tek 2009 there are going to be a series of webinars.

Unfortunately the first of these webinars ( Time & Project Management with Web2Project ) has already passed (I did not get the RSS feed until after the event had finished) however there are of course some great ones coming up. (more…)

“High Performance Web Sites” A Review

Thursday, June 12th, 2008

Title High Performance Web Sites
Author Steve Sounders
ISBN-10 0-596-52930-9 (ISBN-13 978-0-596-52930-7)
Pages 146 (including index)

High Performance Web Sites by Steve Saunders is an attempt at teaching people how to best go about optimizing their web sites. No I do not mean optimizing for search engines, I mean optimizing for the best user experience (and believe me it is a relief to have a book aimed at giving the user a better experience rather than the search engines). (more…)

Is Using $_POST And $_GET The End Of My Register Globals Woes?

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

On my travels I come across many people who are blissfully unaware of register globals and if they are aware of it, they misunderstand what it does.

Some people seem to believe that using the $_POST, $_GET… global arrays that they have protected themselves from the effects of register globals.

They couldn’t be further from the truth. (more…)

Wordpress Plugins, Got Any Ideas?

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

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The Wordpress plugin has now got a new home. The Wordpress who’s online plugin can now be found HERE.

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I have just started making some wordpress plugins. My first attempt was a quiz script which seems to work fairly well however is not released as of yet.

My second plugin which I have just released in a beta state (and have applied for inclusion on the Wordpress site) is a cool plugin that will show you how many people are on your blog. It displays a handy link on the top right of your admin pages as well as having an added page within the Users section of the admin panel which shows who is online as well as what they are looking at. If you think this is an interesting plugin take a look at the Who’s Online Plugin page for more information. (more…)

We Are Back!

Saturday, December 29th, 2007

For those of you that have tried to visit us in the last few days we unfortunately experienced a problem with the server.

At 00:30 or so Friday morning we found the server behaving erratically and finally becoming unreachable. Even a reboot would not fix it.

It turned out we had a rootkit on the server. We have now subsequently reformatted the server and are securing it to try to ensure it never happens again.

Here’s hoping for a smooth ride for a while.

A Very Interesting Looking Webinar

Thursday, December 20th, 2007

I received the usual Zend newsletter today. Zend have announced a very interesting looking webinar in January.

The webinar is entitled “Seven Steps To Better PHP Code” and is split up into 2 separate webinars.

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