New WordPress Plugin: SponsorMe
Posted by: Owen on Monday, 5th May, 2008
I’ve just published a WordPress plugin that I wrote a few months ago and never actually made available to the World. It’s called SponsorMe and lets you organise a fund raising campaign on your WordPress blog. Blog readers will be presented with a graph of the monies you have collected and an opportunity to sponsor [...]
Forays into AJAX
Posted by: Owen on Friday, 1st Feb, 2008
I’ve recently had the opportunity to learn more about AJAX. For those unfamiliar with the term, it’s a web technique whereby web pages can make asynchronous calls to backend services to present functionality to the user without having to refresh the page all the time. I did this while developing functionality for my latest WordPress [...]
PHP - Want to create a graph?
Posted by: Owen on Sunday, 2nd Dec, 2007
Last night I wanted to create a WordPress widget for my brother in law, Randolph who has decided to ask people who ask him what he wants for Xmas to donate cash towards his new laptop. It’s a bit rough as I can’t really dedicate time to it at the moment, but I wanted to [...]
My Hosting Arrangements
Posted by: Owen on Thursday, 4th Oct, 2007
I’m not sure whether I’ve blogged about this before, but I wanted to talk about the hosting facility my website is using. It’s on a reseller package on a company called ServerGrid and it comes with a host of facilities.
Obviously there’s the usual things, disk space, bandwidth, email and a lot of other facilities. They [...]
Comment Email Responder
Posted by: Owen on Friday, 20th Apr, 2007
Is your blog sticky? Would you like your visitors to keep coming back for more? Well, one way to make sure this happens is to respond to the comments they leave on your blog. The question is, how do you make sure they get the response?
Well, one way is to email them a copy of [...]
WordPress 2.1 breaks Link Library
Posted by: Owen on Tuesday, 23rd Jan, 2007
Installing WordPress 2.1 worked fine in most cases, however it has broken one of the plugins I use on the site. The plugin is called Link Library and makes use of a depracated function called $wpdb->linkcategories. Actually it’s a depractated table in the database. WordPress 2.1 uses the same category table for links and posts. [...]
Using PHP? Watch out for your security!
Posted by: Owen on Thursday, 11th Jan, 2007
Excellent post on Security Focus by Kelly Martin called PHP apps: Security’s Low-hanging Fruit which is a worthwhile read for anyone using applications written in PHP, just like WordPress for example. The article talks about the rise in popularity of PHP, the subsequent increase in PHP-based applications and the problems brought about by less-experienced coders [...]
SMTP: Invalid Address
Posted by: Owen on Thursday, 28th Dec, 2006
Turns out this was caused by the way PHP talks to a mail provider provider, typically when talking to a Windows mail server. The solution was simple (once you figure it out), and involves removing the “<” section that adds the sender name so that your mail program can describe the email address it receives. [...]
Six Word Stories - Programming Languages
Posted by: Owen on Saturday, 28th Oct, 2006
I came across this post containing a bunch of six word stories about Programming Languages. Here are my favourite:
C#
I am so better than Java!
Java
How did I become today’s COBOL?
COBOL
Without me there wouldn’t be PCs.
and
Ruby
Rails, Rails, Rails - What about ME???
Rails
Must not .. succumb to .. the hype!
PHP
Rails? Hah. Flash in the pan.
Python
I’m just as [...]
Building Responsive Web Application with AJAX and PHP
Posted by: Owen on Monday, 13th Feb, 2006
Cristian Darie, a good mate of mine is in the process of release a new book: Building Responsive Web Applications with AJAX and PHP: Online Edition. It will be available soon and I’m sure it will prove to be an excellent read! Some of the AJAX demos are already available, so feel free to click [...]
