Archive for the ‘ PHP ’ Category
I spent most of Saturday moving Swap-bot to its new server. In the past, moving servers wasn’t too big a deal since I never really got any traffic. A day or two downtime wasn’t anything I worried about. But, the reason I had to even move in the first place was because Swap-bot has started [ READ MORE ]
I finally heard back about the test I took a few weeks ago. I passed. I am now a Zend Certified Engineer. The test covered PHP, which happens to be the programming language I spent all day (and night) using. [ READ MORE ]
I got some time to play around with the Zend Framework today and I am not exactly crazy about it yet. I think that once some of the bugs get worked out it is going to be great. That said, I have decided not to use it right now. I tried ZendServiceFlickr out and it was [ READ MORE ]
I saw today that Zend has released its Framework for download. I guess I don’t really know where to start playing with it. I am most excited for ZendXmlRpc, ZendPdf, ZendJson, ZendInputFilter and maybe ZendFeed. I also am curious how ZendController and Zend_View work. I have played with MVC’s before and ended up not really [ READ MORE ]
Chris Shiflett has more info on the PHP Easter Eggs I wrote about earlier. I find it very humorous that he uses 37signals as his example site for the demo. 37signals has been receiving a lot of press recently for all the work with Ruby on Rails. [ READ MORE ]
I came across a funny PHP Easter Egg today. Append the string “?=PHPE9568F36-D428-11d2-A769-00AA001ACF42″ to the end of URI of any PHP script and you get to see the easter egg. For example, my site runs PHP, so going to http://travisj.org/?=PHPE9568F36-D428-11d2-A769-00AA001ACF42 shows the dog picture. Try it out on other PHP sites. And for a bonus, “?=PHPB8B5F2A0-3C92-11d3-A3A9-4C7B08C10000″ [ READ MORE ]
Photo uploading in WordPress 2.0 has gotten much easier. You can now upload photos directly from the “Write Post” page, rather than on a separate page like previous WP versions. There is a little bit of a trick to get the photo uploaded the way you probably want it. I might not be doing it [ READ MORE ]
One of the biggest features of the new WordPress release is the integration with the spam blocking service, Akismet. Everything you need to know about setting up the Akismet plugin can pretty much be found at Wordpress.com. For even easier setup, follow these instructions: Signup for a WordPress.com account. In addition to [ READ MORE ]
I had been underwhelmed with Typo, so I switched back to Wordpress today. I searched google for a script to do so, but found very few references to anyone doing so. This meant I had to write my own script to migrate back to Wordpress. If anyone else wants to make the same switch as me, [ READ MORE ]
I realize the posts have gotten to be pretty infrequent lately, but I am going to fix that. I am moving my blog back over to Wordpress (typo is just to slow on my host and they can’t seem to fix it). Before any of that can happen, I am going to have to write [ READ MORE ]