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Category Archives: Programming
WordPress recent posts as JSON
For an update to one of my web projects I went looking for a way to get the recent posts as JSON instead of using the RSS feed. I personally find JSON much easier to deal with than RSS, so … Continue reading
days_ago function for PHP
Can’t take credit for all of this, but I also don’t remember where the code that I started with came from. days_ago is a function that will take two dates and return a more human friendly version of dates. So … Continue reading
PHP function to get first n words from a string
A handy little function for your bag of tricks. This PHP function will return a max number of words out of a string, or the whole string if it’s already shorter. This probably could be made shorter, but I was … Continue reading
fsockopen / fgets very slow in PHP
I’ve been using a PHP class in a project that pulls a URL and then caches the result so it doesn’t have to get loaded again until it’s considered stale. Works pretty well, but every time it went out to … Continue reading
Posting to Twitter with PHP and OAuth class
Needed a bit of an update on a font site I threw up a few years ago. Specifically I wanted to put a script together to tweet a random font each day. Should have been easy since I already had … Continue reading
How to create a very simple space game in Flash
Admit it, you’ve played an online game while at work. And odds are very good it was written in Flash / ActionScript. We’re going to cook up a very simple Flash project that might serve as the start of a … Continue reading
trac error – Unable to get database connection within 0 seconds
Spent the better part of today fighting to get trac installed on my server so I can keep track of development tasks. Finally gave up trying to get the RVSkin version installed as it seemed to be a mess and … Continue reading
Problem with SyntaxHighlighter and 2 character strings
Had a very odd, very frustrating issue come up trying to get SyntaxHighlighter working on a project I’m working on. When the code to be highlighted was only two characters long it would blank it out and the code would … Continue reading
PHP function to reset instance variables
Quick snippet to reset all public instance variables inside a PHP class back to their original values. Can’t take credit for the code though. Found it on a website somewhere and have used it in pretty much every class I … Continue reading
How to close all projects in NetBeans
File this under “duh.” I typically have several projects open in NetBeans and occasionally go through and close them all to clean up a little. Turns out if you shift click on the projects you want closed there’s a new item on … Continue reading