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I've recently been involved in a project whereby we'll convert a long URL into a short URL. This is by no means a new service - some sites have been doing this for ages.
What we did this time round is get a really, really short url - something memorable too… So we bought url.co.uk.
We decided that we'd start off by offering something 'new' as well - where possible, we'll check the destination URL against a frequently updated database of known phishing sites. We don't want to send you and your visitors to a malicious site that looks like Paypal, but isn't Paypal!
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September 28th, 2007
Just a heads up to those of you who are interested in monitoring your site uptime. Pingdom are celebrating the release of their firefox extension by giving away free one year subscriptions to their service (normally $120/year). All you need to do is visit their site within the next 22 hours, using firefox, and sign up!
August 24th, 2007
Although not directly PHP-related, I'm aware that a lot of people who look over this blog are freelance or part time coders. It's always important to make sure that both you and your client stand on the same level, and as such, MediaSurgery have been kind enough to release their web design contract (checked by a lawyer) for free. The contract is available in both Open Office and Microsoft Word formats. Go get it!
May 2nd, 2006
One of the talks whilst I was at the UK PHP Conference was on AJAX, and its downfalls. The talk was done by Harry Fuecks, someone whose opinion is respected within the online community. I've always been a bit wary of 'new' technologies when they surface, and the mad rush to implement them as they are 'cool'. Ajax is not exceptionally new. Internet Explorer was the first browser to implement the XMLHttpRequest protocol as an ActiveX object, way back in IE 5 circa 1999. However, its only been the recent use by certain big sites such a Google and Amazon that have made it more mainstream in the rush to implement it.
Continue Reading February 11th, 2006
The PHPLondon mailing list have organised the UK's first PHP conference. Details are promising for an interesting day, and I've already booked my ticket! If you plan on going, leave a comment in the blog!
Conference tickets are just £50 each at the moment so make sure you get in there quickly! There is a limited number of seats too!
Speakers:
- Harry Fuecks, author of JPSpan, talking about AJAX and how it sucks.
- Matt Zandstra talking about an object oriented approach at Yahoo.
- Derick Rethans talking about the new Ez Components.
- Christopher Kunz from the Hardened PHP project will scare your pants off.
- Pawel Kozlowski will describe the PHP Pico container and dependency injection
January 11th, 2006
From my search stats, its quite clear that a lot of people are struggling with installing the Oracle XE rpm. As a result, I've uploaded the rpm that I used for my installation on Fedora Core 4. You can download this directly at http://www.jellyandcustard.com/downloads/libaio-0.3.104-2.i386.rpm or from the command line by executing this just before installing Oracle XE:
rpm -ivh http://www.jellyandcustard.com/downloads/libaio-0.3.104-2.i386.rpm
Happy installing!
Continue Reading December 10th, 2005
Every site on the interweb needs a domain name to be functional. The question is, what constitutes a good domain name? Anyone looking to register a new domain name these days will be hard pressed to find one that satisfies the following:
- Available for registration
- Actually relates to the site content
- Has a decent domain extension
- Optional: contains company name
We've all tried to register a domain to be told its not free. Maybe my word power is low, but I can never locate the *perfect* domain name - of course, JellyandCustard.com is that exception to the rule!
Continue Reading November 18th, 2005
Following on from Khalid's previous post on multiple submit buttons, its also worth nothing that you can have multiple submit buttons with the same name attribute, e.g:
<input type="submit" name="action" value="Edit" id="actionEdit" />
<input type="submit" name="action" value="Delete" id="actionDelete" />
So, once the form's been submitted, in PHP the $_POST['action'] var will be set to either Edit or Delete.
November 17th, 2005
There's been quite an increase recently in online income stream sites. These are basically sites that are tailored to a certain subject, and alongside the content, a few targetted adverts are placed in the hope that you, the visitor, will click on them. A good site will get a good google ranking, and a fairly decent stream of visitors. Some of these visitors will inevitable click on your adverts, and you make the money for the clickthrough. That's money that you make for doing nothing apart from setup a site, and then some search engine optimisation/listings.
November 16th, 2005
When I reformatted my server and put Fedora Core 4 on, I had a marked decrease in transfer speeds. Before the format, i was getting about 3mb/sec, which although is slow over a 100mbit network, it was bearable. However, after the format, I had speeds on scp throttling at about 60Kb/sec!
The confusing thing was that transfers over http and ftp were going at about 9mb/sec, ruling out any hardware problems. After quite a bit of hunting around the internet, I stumbled upon an article that I've now misplaced the link for 
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Anyhow, the fix is below.
November 15th, 2005