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Monthly Archives: January 2009
Trac Bookmarklet: load ticket number easily
While communicating with other coworkers, they generally just give me a trac ticket # and not the full URL. And, as a lazy programmer, I hate typing in the full URL or loading up trac and searching the #. So, … Continue reading
Bookmarklet: Wage Calculator
While searching for employment, I realize I can’t be super picky – but my household does have needs! Because of this, I’ve developed a quick calculator / bookmarklet for the browser that I thought I’d share. It allows you to … Continue reading
PHP Bitwise User Authorization
After looking at the Windows model for controlling file access, I realized I could also do that for user authorization control. The code is pretty self explanatory, but after, you’ll find a quick rundown. ?View Code PHP1 2 3 4 … Continue reading
Eclipse PDT: Integrating Apache Bench for load testing
When I use an IDE, I expect for it to do everything I need for my project, from start to finish. As you may have read in earlier entries, I enjoy using Eclipse PDT. I think its time to include … Continue reading
HTML 5 and Me – Draft 10 thoughts
I thought I’d ramble on a bit about my thoughts on the HTML5 differences from HTML4 draft from working draft 10 in June 2008. You can find it – or the newest one – here: html5 diff. I’m eagerly watching … Continue reading
Dialing Phone Numbers from a Webpage
I’ve recently been investigating making some better mobile accessible pages for some of my projects. I’ve seen pages that allow you to dial a phone number directly from the webpage – so I thought I’d investigate… WTAI – Mobile Protocol … Continue reading
PHP.ini creator
While listening to someone complain through twitter about their MySQL conf file, I came up with a cool idea: what if I created a PHP.ini creator that would suggest changes to your php.ini file as well as generate an updated … Continue reading
PHP and the UUID
I’ve been thinking more and more about having unique ID’s – especially with working with larger datasets – and I thought it was high time that I investigated the UUID. The first time I ever heard about these was actually … Continue reading
Is PHP's __call() used when no __construct is present?
Simple enough question. Lets check out some test code: ?View Code PHP1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 <?php class TEST { public function __construct($arguments) { … Continue reading
Localized dates in php
Date formats – How time makes pretty The PHP Date manual page has a ton of interesting features to format the date that you can display to the user. However, when you look closer at it, there are actually some … Continue reading