Tag Archives: Programming

PHP function to get first n words from a string

Posted on December 17th, 2011 by Ryan

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 →

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Teaching recursion with Scratch BYOB – take 2

Posted on October 8th, 2011 by Ryan

This is a follow up from a post I did about a year and a half ago on using Scratch BYOB to teach recursion. The original way of defining parameters in BYOB were a bit clunky, but it’s gotten much … Continue reading →

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Another good use for mod

Posted on May 1st, 2011 by Ryan

Got to admit that mod is one of those topics that I have trouble getting across to my students. Not the idea of what it is and how to do it, but the purpose. The classic isOdd / isEven lab … Continue reading →

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Just finished up a couple of WordPress plugins

Posted on January 16th, 2011 by Ryan

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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bit.ly and PHP

Posted on July 24th, 2010 by Ryan

Needed a quick and easy way to create a bit.ly URL for another site of mine. Google came through for me. David Walsh posted a short PHP function on his site that takes your bit.ly login, API key, and the … Continue reading →

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Curved corners script for Photoshop

Posted on March 20th, 2010 by Ryan

I’ve been looking for an excuse to play around with scripting in Photoshop. Today I found one. I came across a series of actions that rounded off the corners of an image to get it ready for uploading to a … Continue reading →

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Event tracking with JavaScript

Posted on March 19th, 2010 by Ryan

A while back Google added event tracking to Analytics so you could keep track of Javascript and Flash events.  Pretty cool feature. Being the stat junkie that I wanted to use this to keep track of outgoing clicks on a … Continue reading →

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Grouping MySQL query by date

Posted on July 7th, 2009 by Ryan

Working on a statistics plugin I needed a way to group records by the day.  Turns out it’s remarkably easy. If you just want to group by year and month take off the DAY() part.  This would also be a … Continue reading →

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