Computer Platform

PHP Classes and Functions

Tuesday, April 27th, 2010

PHP is a very powerful programming language which is favored more than many other languages when it comes to web functionality. In a personal viewpoint after learning functions and then on to classes you can start building much more advanced scripts and the only limit is your imagination.

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Collaberative Coding: How we work!

Thursday, April 15th, 2010

Ever work in sync with another co-worker on a particular program or file? If that’s so i’m sure you know some of the problems that can be run into. There is the potential chance of file over-writing or mistakenly deleting something that you should not have. Philip and I have both encountered this before when working on projects, and trust me after spending many hours on a particular section on a site then only to be saved over by accident by your partner almost makes you want to smash your head into the wall.

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Apple: Magic Mouse

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010

… and there was one mouse to rule them all (more…)

Apple Store Success Story

Monday, January 25th, 2010

My Apple Bluetooth Keyboard experienced some technical difficulties over the winter holidays. For two weeks I was coding without a V on my keyboard. I had two options. 1. Press the rubber nub. 2. Press the V on my laptop. Trivial yes, but when you are typing <div></div> many times a day, it becomes a real pita. (more…)

Clean URLs on Media Temple’s Grid-Service (gs)

Sunday, August 9th, 2009

Noticing the amount of questions of “clean urls” being brought up on Media Temple’s Grid Server platforms, made a point that there should be a clean and easy write up to get this working without having lots of foreknowledge about the PHP/Apache system. This mainly applies to any site running a content management system, such as Drupal which this write up mainly focuses on! (more…)

Test Multiple MAMP Vhosts With Parallels XP

Sunday, August 9th, 2009

This tutorial is based on the presumption that you have successfully installed MAMP on your Mac and are running multiple vhosts. If you have not done this yet, please see this link. (more…)