I have a new project in the works and I thought it about time to get a verioning setup working beyond locally, I don’t want to use a PaaS (like Cloud control) though for this one as its Top Secret (for now.) Yeah Yeah I know, shared web hosting, 1and1 – not so secret eh? [...]
Woody Hayday
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1and1 Web Hosting & Git – Installing it for singular dev
Also posted in Code, Projects, Snippets, Web Technology Tagged 1and1, ghetto first version, git, ssh
Recent Projects, Top Freelancer People Per Hour
It was a busy November, but it paid off – completed a good few projects for some great clients, and whats more I won no# 1 Top Freelancer @ people per hour! You can read more about some of my recent projects here, although there’s only a few case studies up, the most public of [...]
Also posted in Looking Back, PHP, Projects, Web Technology Tagged app, cloud, freelance, freelancing, people per hour
IP to Location Alternative: Javascript – Using JS to find Browser Country / Location not from IP
Know your audience? Got google analytics aggregating their details? Great, good for you! But doe’s that add any value in the short term? Improve THEIR browsing experience? In the long run you should use analytics to achieve better sites (although many don’t) – but for now, right here you can still add some of the [...]
Also posted in Javascript, Snippets Tagged asp.net, download, explorations, javascript, location, php, timezones
Did you know: Facebook short url’s already kinda exist
As a side note: facebook shorturls, or at least abreviated urls exist. We all know about fb.me, but fb.com works too…. Random occurance: Was saving down facebook data into a database from the graph api, wanted to save the urls in a mixed url table but didn’t want to bother saving the whole http://www.facebook.com every [...]
Also posted in Facebook Pages, Projects, Web Technology Tagged dataspace savings, facebook, facebook shorturl, random occurance, shorturl
Maintain a CSV with Javascript – keep a hidden list
The situation: Want to build a comma separated list of int’s (or whatever) client-side, in javascript, remove/add items on the fly using JS. Well these tiny functions below are what I use, useful when you just need to get a clever form / app input done. Using the below you can add/remove items to an [...]
Also posted in Javascript, Snippets Tagged client-side, csv, javascript, ui
Facebook time in php – Facebook uses GMT not PDT/PST?
I don’t know whether its purely related to my location when I am calling facebooks’ graph API or what, but all the talk about what timestamps facebooks API returns seems to be wrong. Perhaps they’ve changed something, perhaps they are re-adjusting them just for me. If its the latter I wonder why they are giving me GMT [...]
Also posted in Facebook Pages, PHP, Projects, Social Media Tagged facebook, facebook apps, facebook pages, facebook time, timezones
Unable to drop JQuery sortable onto empty list? Hack solution
The problem: You have a multi column (or area) JQuery UI Sortable (these are neat) which only needs to show a “drop zone” when the user has started to drag a sortable object. The JQuery documentation for this doesn’t account for the reality of the above, its all very well if you want the empty [...]
Also posted in Javascript, Snippets Tagged JQuery, Sortable
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