Where Has All The PHP Gone?

August 31, 2009

When I started learning to program in PHP around 2 years ago, one of the things that excited me the most about it was the vibrant following it had. The community was strong in numbers, loyalty and willingness to help alike. I was always able to find help with almost anything PHP related that I [...]

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Windows 7: A Web Developer’s Perspective

August 31, 2009

Like many other web developers, I have over the years grown to shun the Microsoft Windows operating system. My main reason was simply that I like the idea of free and more importantly open source software. Its hard to shun the OS giant completely however as Microsoft OS’s are ubiquitous not to mention the [...]

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Posting to WordPress with PHP and XML-RPC

August 8, 2009

Recently, i’ve been working on a few projects that have required me to extend my programming reach in order to acheive things not normally encountered in your typical project. One of the things i’ve been required to accomplish with PHP lately is to post to WordPress automatically via an HTML form. On exploring the possible [...]

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17 PHP Practices That Should Be Banished Forever

August 1, 2009

The following is a list of 17 PHP programming practices that in my opinion should be banished into oblivion. Forever and ever. Amen. Please note that this list is in no particular order. So, without further ado:

1. Using Register Globals
Most PHP programmers will have heard of this at least once. ‘Don’t rely on register globals!’. [...]

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How-To: View Webpage Source From The BlackBerry Browser

July 27, 2009

Have you ever had the need to view the source of a webpage from your BlackBerry? Well neither have I but i’m pretty sure that someday, knowing how to will come in handy so I decided to share my new found knowledge. Its as easy as while viewing a webpage in the BlackBerry browser, holding [...]

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GeoSmart Plugin for WordPress Updated!

July 24, 2009

I’ve been dragging my feet over the past few weeks with regard to improving my GeoSmart geolocation plugin for WordPress as i’ve been inundated with tons of work lately. Many people have been waiting on an update and my email inbox is populated with emails regarding various aspects of the software. Today, I finally got [...]

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WordPress Client for BlackBerry: First Impressions

July 11, 2009

The very much anticipated official WordPress client for BlackBerry has been released in the form of a public beta. The WordPress team joined forces with the guys over at Danais (makers of the Mopress BlackBerry blogging app) to produce this highly requested BlackBerry application.
On first look, the application appears clean and crisp with a nice [...]

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The HTML5/Ogg Theora/H.264 Nonissue

July 10, 2009

The web design and development community that lives on the bleeding edge of trends and developments in the world of web related matters is abuzz with excitement over the relatively new HTML5/XHTML5 markup specification. With browsers now being released that are capable of rendering pages written to meet the HTML5 specification (e.g. Firefox 3.5), designers [...]

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Stupid PayPal!

June 28, 2009

Today, I finally decided to sign up for a PayPal account, mainly because I need an avenue through which to receive donations for a Wordpress plugin I just wrote. I started the process and was going through the motions when I came across a screen asking me to select my country. After selecting Jamaica, I [...]

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Use is_numeric() When Testing Form Data!!!

June 27, 2009

I just spent the last 2 hours trying to figure out why my input validation class wasn’t working. The scenario was pretty simple; ensure that a particular field was a three digit number. I have been using is_int() for the past two hours and wondering why I haven’t been getting the results I was expecting. [...]

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