During a recent project I needed a script to retrieve some real-time data from a Twitter account and display the results on the homepage.
After a quick search I came across a helpful PHP script by Joost de Valk. Much of the code below is based on his original script, so all credit to him. Read More
If you are a developer, no doubt you have a local development environment in which you build your website projects, testing every function, every change to make sure that once it’s ready to go live, you can upload the files and in preparation for launch.
Once you get a few projects under your belt, and especially where using fully featured Content Management Systems (CMS) like Joomla! or WordPress, where you can make 60-70% of the changes you need directly through the back-end administration, you’ll find your local/development version of your website quickly becomes out of date in comparison to the live site. Read More
I have seen quite a few posts about this topic floating around the internet during my search for a solution, many of them did not apply to my situation or failed to be clear and concise so I thought I would have a bash at documenting the necessary steps in setting up a cron job on your linux server.
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I was working on a mini-script to display the results of a database and then log the results into a log file. One of the problems with the logging script was that every time the page was displayed, it would pull the results from the database and log the results.
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I recently upgraded a client to a 1and1 Linux Business Pro hosting package and so far I have found no major obstacles.
The previous environment was a dedicated Windows 2003 server in which there was free reign to modify any of the core files, including the PHP installation and any other similar files. Read More
A few days ago I made a post relating to an issue I came across with Joomla! during a move from running it in basic SEF mode, which utilises the aliases given when creating categories and articles in the Joomla administration/back-end, to the full/advanced SEF mode which utilises both the aliases and Apache’s mod_rewrite to remove the index.php from the URL. Actual implementation requires a minor modification of the .htaccess within the root Jooma directory, which I hope to cover in a subsequent post. Read More
I recently moved a clients distribution of Joomla! from a Windows 2003 enivornment running IIS6, a Microsoft Web Server. As some of you may know IIS and Joomla! do not play nice together, in particular all the SEF (Search Engine Friendly) and SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) settings do not work out of the box as they rely heavily on Apache’s mod_rewrite. Read More
At the moment my browser of choice is Opera, a suprise for the hordes of those website designer/Firefox lovers out there I’m sure.
My reasons are primarly for the interface, the clever speed-dial and the fact that it doesnt have the same memory hogging problems of the resource hungry Firefox. Granted that Opera, especially in v9.x, is by no means lite on resources either but in comparison – my computer is less resource crippled when using Opera with multiple open tabs for extended periods of time. Read More
A helpful little article I discovered over at About.com, titled Using @import in Cascading Style Sheets, by Jennifer Kyrnin, describes how to import external CSS rules from within another CSS document.
It seems to be a great way to manage multiple CSS documents and thereby encourage the seperation of CSS rules to aide maintenance and development by keeping the code within a stylesheet clear and relevent to a specific purpose.
The one thing that concerns me is the browser support for such a nifty little CSS rule. The article states that: Read More
