Most PHP developers utilizing MVC frameworks would argue that the best approach for models are classes with a varied number of getters and setters. After a long time working with PHP and especially MVC frameworks and data mining/retrieval, I am of a completely different opinion and I will discuss why.
Introduction The following is a quick start guide to getting up and running with Windows Azure and Blob storage using Java. First thing you’ll need to do is setup a Windows Azure account, you can do that here: https://www.windowsazure.com Install Azure SDK Next you’ll need to download the Azure SDK for Read more…
Foreword So the other day while building a Facebook application, I needed to get some information that I just couldn’t find any way to get other than through the use of FQL Needless to say, finding examples of FQL are plentiful. However, examples that use FQL and the Facebook PHP Read more…
Foreword So I was developing a Facebook application and realized that once the content was rendered inside of Facebook, I kept getting scrollbars. This was terribly annoying being that I wanted to take up more vertical space, but didn’t want the iframe to have scrollbars. Instead, I wanted the main Read more…
Forword The following javascript examples and notation demonstrate a few alternatives to well known methods for common tasks. Advanced Notation Tilde Operator The tilde operator ~ literally equates to -(n+1). For example: Large Denary Numbers Large denary numbers can be represented in short hand notation using the e operator. For Read more…
Foreword Absolutely positioned elements can be quite useful, but what if you have something centered or off to one side and you need to just nudge an absolutely positioned element. The following will show you a handy technique for moving absolute elements relative to the elements around it using nothing Read more…
Foreword The following is a tutorial for creating PHP scripted daemons. All examples will be performed on CentOS linux. The daemon code itself will be written in PHP with a BASH script wrapper. Getting Started So to get started, let’s create a simple PHP file that will be executed as Read more…
Introduction Facebook “like” buttons are pretty easy to implement – if you have a straight forward site. If you are loading your content using AJAX or some other form of delayed load, you might notice a problem if you’re not using Facebook’s iframe. FBML users have probably noticed that when Read more…
There are a lot of hacks out there dealing with getting specific CSS files to load on a per browser basis. I wanted to try a different approach. I wanted a way to specify the default or standard CSS that all pages will use as well as a way to Read more…
Foreword The following is a quick start guide for gettting Solr configured, up and running in a few minutes. All of my examples will be performed on CentOS Linux. Getting Started First things first, make sure you have Java installed and ready. Next download a Solr release: http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/lucene/solr/ Then extract Read more…