Like a lot of people I do most of my development work on windows PC and locally run a web a server and database. Like a a lot of people I just downloaded and installed a server bundle. For the last few years I have used Apache2triad and it has generally been pretty painless, but [...]
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CakePHP Calendar Helper
About six months ago I wrote a post about a Simple PHP calendar function I had written and how it was also really easy to use as a CakePHP helper. I didn’t actually write the calendar specifically with Cake in mind, but I was working on a Cake site at the same time and I [...]
A simple jQuery menu with persistence using cookies
Recently I’ve been making a concerted effort to learn jQuery the JavaScript framework as opposed to just using all the wonderful plugins off the shelf. Recently I needed a bit of code to show and hide a navigation menu, but with persistence using cookies so as you move from page to page it can remember [...]
Route Deja Vu
I just had one of those odd moments that happen when you are stuck and are trawling through Google and you come across something you have written. At the moment I have a blessed respite from the usual rubbish at work of sorting out and extending other peoples bad code, and I am writing a [...]
A simple PHP calendar function
Recently I needed a calendar to display on a site. I looked around for something I could just cut and paste and drop in but I couldn’t find anything, but picked up something I had started about six months earlier and which had then fallen by the wayside. Now calendars aren’t actually very complicated, but [...]
