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Executing PHP Code Server Side In .html Files

On a recent project we needed to provide a client our contribution to the site code base as static .html files. To make the development process easier though a number of the developers wanted to…

Debugging Mobile Web Pages With Opera Developer Tools

If experience has taught me anything its that debugging mobile pages can be a massive pain. Replicating page display issues without a device on hand can prove problematic, and something as simply as…

Sydney AWS Price Comparison

Its no secret I love AWS, a great API combined with their flexible pay as you go model has made it my platform of choice for many projects including my popular “S3 Video” plugin for WordPress . So…

Mirroring a website with wget

Clueless clients and bad briefs can make a developers life very difficult at times so sometimes it comes in handy to be able to replicate a site in its entirety to review.

Bad Day For Electronics

My new GERTBoard an extension board for the Raspberry Pi GPIO interface arrived after a long wait this week. I brushed off my soldering iron all ready to put it to together only to find it had some…

HTML5 Offline Storage

HTML5 introduces a pretty handy ability to cache remote resources locally for off-line use, meaning the resources are downloaded once. Then when the page is used again in the future the local…

Easy PHP File Extensions With PathInfo

The other day I was building some file handling functionality into a project I was working on when i came to thinking about the best way to retrieve the extension of a filename with PHP.

PHP CGI 504 Gateway Timed Out Errors With Nginx

Recently I noticed that the nginx error log for a site I was working with was filling up with timeout messages similar to below:

Currency Conversion With Google Calculator

Working on a recent project I found myself in the market for a way to simply calculate what one currency is worth in relation to another. After some looking around I was surprised to find currency…

Sorting tabular data with tableSorter

The jQuery tableSorter script is one of those indispensable scripts for a web developer, as most applications have a need to display tabular data to the user at some place in their application. The…