The good news: PHP has lots and lots of useful built-in functions for all sorts of things.
The bad news: PHP has lots and lots of useful built-in functions I don’t know about.
Sometimes it’s almost an embarrassment of riches. You think you know PHP pretty well and know how to write some pretty slick code. In [...]
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Tourney Time Again
I’ve posted my 2010 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament randomized bracket generator. It’s a quick way to pick winners for your bracket pools. It simply weights each game by the teams’ tournament seedings. It ain’t fancy, but if you’re tired of spending hours trying to pick the winners only to find you’re out of the competition [...]
Amazon Kindle for PC
Amazon.com has just released a beta version of Kindle for PC. This free application allows you to purchase and read Amazon Kindle e-books on your PC. If you also own their Kindle reader, the application will sync with your existing account, making any e-books purchased through Amazon available both on your PC and your Kindle.
I [...]
Komodo Edit 5.2.0 Released
The 5.2.0 version of Komodo Edit has just been released. In addition to some bug fixes and UI features, the release notes indicate that support for PHP 5.3.0 has been added, including code completions for name spaces and syntax coloring of latest keywords (“namespace”, “use”, “as”, etc…).
(FYI, this is the editor I’m currently using, but [...]
Book List Application
As something I’m doing just because I want to and as a learning experience, I’m in the beginning stages of creating a web application where users can manage data on books: books they own, books they’ve read, and books they want to read. Assuming I stick with it, I figure I’ll post occasional articles here [...]
Upgrade WordPress to Avoid Potential Exploit
If you run any WordPress blogs, be sure to upgrade your software to the latest version (2.8.4 as of this writing) to avoid an exploit which may place your blog or web site at risk. See the article at “Lorelle on WordPress” for more info. Either use the upgrade link on your WordPress blog’s control [...]
NetBeans: Opening a Non-Project File
As I discussed earlier, I’ve been playing around some with NetBeans 6.5 for PHP IDE. While overall I have liked it a lot, one thing that was holding me back was that it did not seem to be possible to simply open a file for editing unless it was part of a defined project.
I figured [...]
