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How to Quickly Mask a Credit Card Number
So, often I have to show a masked credit card on the screen. However, I really want to go the extra mile and show the user a secure, fully masked credit card number that still reflects their original card. For … Continue reading
Service Class Methodology
There has been a lot of discussion on forums and throughout the object oriented PHP programming community about service classes. This is just intensified by the Zend Framework model of development coupled with the changes in their design/architecture and vocal … Continue reading
Why IP Authorization No Longer Works on Web Apps
The last time someone brought up authorizing certain actions by IP address – or I should say, limiting the amount of actions that can happen by one IP address. I brushed that off without a second thought. It didn’t occur … Continue reading
To WWW or not to WWW
I run into this question a lot. Should my website have www in the domain name. Should I be going to aaronsaray.com or www.aaronsaray.com?? That is to say, which should be the default home page domain? Let’s discuss… Take care … Continue reading
Excel won't handle UTF-8 in CSV? Force a different encoding in PHP
When generating a CSV file with PHP in the UTF-8 encoding, Microsoft Excel freaks out. It just doesn’t show the proper encoding. Thank you Microsoft! However, I did find a way to handle this encoding and make it compatible for … Continue reading
Object Cache Class in PHP
While I’m infinitely happy that all uses of a class in PHP now are references, that’s just not good enough. Sometimes I want to use my newly created object in many different methods. I have two options. First, I could … Continue reading
chaining methods in PHP
I rarely find myself needing to chain methods in PHP – but its not an altogether bad idea. The only caveat that is necessary is that your code must be written in such a way that a method can fail, … Continue reading
Email to SMS/TXT address list
The website http://www.emailtextmessages.com/ keeps a database of most of the email addresses that correlate directly to a txt for mobile phones. However, their version is in HTML – and I see no feed. I’ve compiled the list into a .csv … Continue reading
Multi-Version Programming to Successfully Leverage Overseas Programming
Today, I read through the paper titled ‘An Experimental Evaluation of the Assumption of Independence in Multi-Version Programming’ (Find it here). The basic concept is that in N programs written by N different programmers, they will have N*N bugs and … Continue reading
My Progression through Forgot Passwords
I thought I’d take some time to look at the 3 main ways that I’ve handled forgotten passwords on my websites, why I did them that way, and if there was anything wrong. Disclaimer: there is a lot of bad … Continue reading