PHP

Martyn on February 23rd, 2010

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 [...]

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Martyn on May 22nd, 2009

Ever wondered how to tell if you are hiring a competent programmer?  In the following video Ron Burk discusses the Psychology of Incompetence in which he leaves you with no illusions.

If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization

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Martyn on April 27th, 2009

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 [...]

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Martyn on January 2nd, 2009

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 block a [...]

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