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AppleScript – a frustrating beginning

Academia and professional work has exposed me to a few different programming paradigms: functional, logical, procedural and object-orientated. I usually get along fine with a new paradigm, starting off with […]

Posted on April 2, 2009 by ash
Posted in AppleScript2 Comments

All-in-one cookie function

Users stumbling across jQuery may notice the API’s designed so a method’s behaviour varies depending on the number and type of arguments passed in a call (have a look at […]

Posted on March 9, 2009 by ash
Posted in JavaScript6 Comments

The MacBook Pro’s not so bad…

Two years after moaning about my MacBook Pro I figure it’s time for an update: It’s not so bad… Thanks to various blog comments I managed to solve most of […]

Posted on February 23, 2009 by ash
Posted in Mac, Rant

Concatenating arrays in PHP

Just a quick post so I know where to look the next time I forget how to concatenate arrays in PHP. Use array_merge to concatenate two numerically-indexed arrays; not array_push […]

Posted on November 20, 2008 by ash
Posted in PHP, Tip1 Comment

Refactoring vs Rewriting (preamble)

The say the path to recovery starts with admitting you have a problem. I wish our problem was code-rot, or a simple case of a good design gone horribly wrong […]

Posted on October 22, 2008 by ash
Posted in Backstage

Google: Where art thou time conversion?

I love the fact you can use Google to perform basic calculations and conversions. Once you know your currency codes, currency conversion couldn’t be simpler: 100 USD in GBP And […]

Posted on October 14, 2008 by ash
Posted in Tip

Bloody hosting providers

Choosing a hosting provider can be a difficult process, especially when you’re on a budget. I’m heavily involved with ewelike, a product information and price-comparison site that we’re slowly improving […]

Posted on August 29, 2008 by ash
Posted in Rant, Servers3 Comments

Getting git to work on OS X Tiger

If you haven’t heard of git yet, it’s quickly becoming the preferred version-control system for tons of open-source projects, including the twin suns of ruby on rails and prototype. In […]

Posted on August 22, 2008 by ash
Posted in Git, Mac, Subversion, Tip3 Comments

PHP Session Management (grievance 2)

Sometimes PHP surprises you with an easy-to-use feature, like sessions. Sessions are quite easy to use in PHP. One call to @session_start(), and you have a magic global called $_SESSION […]

Posted on August 20, 2008June 14, 2016 by ash
Posted in PHP

SVN log message encoding problem

It’s good practice to put useful commentary in the log message whenever you commit code to a repository. Today, I wrote a log message about centigrade and farenheit conversions, using […]

Posted on August 8, 2008 by ash
Posted in Subversion, Tip1 Comment

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