Posts Tagged ‘php’
Microsoft Web Developer’s Summit 2009
Posted on December 5, 2009 by snipe in Featured, PHP/mySQL, Web Development
I had the opportunity this week to go out to Redmond, Washington to attend the Microsoft Web Developer’s Summit at the MS headquarters. For this summit, about 25 leaders in the PHP (and PHP project) community were invited out to sit down with members of the MS product development teams and provide critical, honest feedback [...]
Web 2-Point-Owned: Apple.Com’s XSS Exploit
Posted on November 3, 2009 by snipe in Featured, Web Development
Earlier today, we got a glimpse of what happens when a big company forgets to cross their t’s and dot their i’s. And in programming, that means failing to validate user-entered data before displaying it on-screen.
Funky characters in HTML mail using PHPMailer
Posted on October 10, 2009 by snipe in Featured, PHP/mySQL, Web Development
While working on a client project, I ended up having to send HTML email notifications to users. During testing, I discovered some stray characters at the beginning of the email.
PHP Regex to Make Twitter Links Clickable
Posted on September 10, 2009 by snipe in PHP/mySQL, Web Development
This is just a quicky post, not one of my usual long, rambling diatribes. This week is madness, even by my own absurd standards, but I didn’t want to miss jotting this down in case it might be helpful to others.
Writing Your First Twitter Application with OAuth
Posted on July 23, 2009 by snipe in Featured, PHP/mySQL, Web Development
If you’re interested in writing a web-based Twitter application but aren’t sure where to start, the Twitter OAuth library from Abraham Wiliams makes authenticating with OAuth and Twitter a breeze.
Changes to Facebook’s Newsfeed/Wall
Posted on April 30, 2009 by snipe in Featured, Web Development
With the most recent API changes, specifically the one that changed the way fan pages behave so that they look and behave more like Facebook user profiles, Facebook also made a significant change in how newsfeeds work in applications.
Quick and Dirty PHP Caching
Posted on March 29, 2009 by snipe in Featured, Web Development
Caching your database-driven website pages has a plethora of benefits, not the least of which being improved speed and reduced server loads. This article will explain how to set up a simple caching system, and will also address when and where caching might not be appropriate.
Trying out Facebook Connect
Posted on January 25, 2009 by snipe in Featured, Web Development
After much deliberation, I have decided to give Facebook Connect a shot on Snipe.Net. Those of you who read this site regularly may remember that I had quite a lot to say about using Facebook Connect last month, so it may seem odd that I’m making this decision. I’ll explain.
Creating A Wordpress Theme
Posted on January 9, 2009 by snipe in Featured, Web Development
If you’ve already got some design chops and a Wordpress blog, but you find the idea of turning it into a Wordpress template a bit daunting, you’re not alone. Creating your own Wordpress theme is actually easier than you might imagine, and although some PHP-fu is certainly helpful, you don’t need to be a PHP [...]
Using IP Geolocation and Radius Searching with PHP/MySQL
Posted on December 15, 2008 by snipe in Featured, PHP/mySQL, Web Development
Delivering content relative to the physical location of your users is an excellent (and fairly easy) way to fine-tune the content you’re delivering to be most relevent to the people visiting your site. Two simple ways of doing this are to use an IP-based geolocation lookup, or to do a manual radius search (like a [...]
Fixing Curly Quotes and Em Dashes in PHP
Posted on December 11, 2008 by snipe in PHP/mySQL
The curly quotes, or “smart quotes” generated by Microsoft Word and other applications can be a real headache to developers. If you’ve built an administration area for your content publishers, and the publishers frequently compose their posts in Word and then copy+paste into your form to publish to the web, you may run into the [...]
