There are hundreds of ways to add video to a WordPress blog, Flash Video is a good place to start. If all you want is to embed a Youtube then Smart Youtube from Vladimir Prelovac reduces the complex to the ridiculously simple. If you can find the V on your keyboard then you will master [...]
Dedicated to Rudenko of RoboSoft As a software developer I should not criticise my peers, I am only too well aware of my own shortcomings. However after 8 years I can no longer be quiet. My angst is over RoboSoft PAD Automation Software, and its excellent. It does exactly what I want, how I want [...]
I recently experienced a problem with a complex MySQL query which reported “MySQL server has gone away” and then just stopped. There are plenty of posts with suggestions to help you fix this rare but annoying message and it’s likely they will help you more than this post. However I found a solution, and one [...]
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It might take a while for NASA to replace shuttle instrumentation with PHP but who knows what will happen? Search for new innovation and 9/10 it’s been developed with PHP and it’s being offered as open source. With so many examples and so many people writing about it the Internet has become a giant PHP [...]
If you would like to redirect browsers based on their IP the following method can be used to handle multiple IP’s. You can choose to redirect entire networks or a single ip. <?php //array of ip’s you wish to block. Note that you can block an //entire class by replacing it with 0, so to [...]
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On more than one occasion these characters  have turned up just when everything else seems fine. Like a tiny weeney scratch on a new car, one that only you know about, these little bastards turn up and take the rest of the day to diagnose. So what  is for?  cannot be smoked [...]
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To remove stuff such as punction and spaces (or anything you want) from a text box before sending to the server for validation you can use code like this, first the HTML:- <input name="name" onblur="this.value = entrycheck(this.value);" type="text" size="20"> And then the following Javascript will remove invalid characters when the user moves to another field:- [...]
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Seven years ago I tried to persuade my business partners and investors not to outsource our startup development to Oracle, but at the time ‘the city’ could not understand how two or three passionate programmers could compare with the might of a 20 strong team of Oracle professionals. BlueBlog Alex article Software Engineering Tips For [...]
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