Category Archives: Programming

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Just finished up a couple of WordPress plugins

Needed a break from a larger web app I’m working on and this weekend kicked out a couple of WordPress plugins that I’ve had on my idea file for a while now. The first is called rTwit and lets you … Continue reading

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JavaScript version of PHP __FILE__ or __DIR__

This is one of those issues I keep coming back to.  I need a way to get the path of the current JavaScript file.  Something analogous to the PHP __DIR__ constant or dirname(__FILE__). Found something close on Stack Overflow.  The … Continue reading

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Trimming all members of an array in PHP

Needed a quick way to go through and trim leading and trailing spaces off of a string array in PHP. I’ve used array_walk to do it before, but with the addition of anonymous functions it makes it a little quicker … Continue reading

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