SEO, PHP and Javascript Web Dev

Iconv is a useful tool to convert the encoding of given files from one encoding to another - which comes in very handy if you want to migrate that old MySQL 4 database to a hot new MySQL 5.

I recently had to migrate a database from MySQL 4 to 5 and its not as easy as you would expect. One of the issues I had to tackle was encrypted passwords saved in the db which obviously needed special character support. Read more…

DELTA, an industry backed web based booking system for online advertising officially launched trial on Tuesday 28th with trial partners the likes of:

Yahoo!
MSN
AOL
Bauer Advertising
Guardian Media Group
OMD
Manning Gottlieb OMD
PHD

A Little About DELTA
DELTA is a system appealing to both online advertising agencies and sales points Read more…

This is a fun one I found today - using getElementById() in IE7 to find a dom element on the page, if you are getting some interesting errors then one possibility is that you have two elements with the same id - or the same name attribute it seems. Read more…

Looking around for an easy way to resize my images ready for uploading to facebook. Sure, you can use gimp batch processes, but that looks like an awful lot of work.

You could install Davids batch processor for Gimp.

OR, you could do it the truly easy way with a single command: Read more…

Another quick tip for the archives. Carriage returns on lines in your view finishing with a php statement. Try sending these views as an email and somehow the resulting email does not look entirely correct. The carriage returns have not been passed through.

This is a quick, hackish, tip so I really didn’t get to the bottom of it. Either PHP or Zend mail or possibly savant 3 the templating engine has some error here. Read more…