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UTF-8 Encoding problems with file_get_contents() and DOMDocument 30 Aug 2011 | 03:50 am
I recently bumped into an encoding issue on a project I was working on. I was trying to scrape some content off a website that had ISO-8859-1 charset encoding, and I needed to capture some text and s...
PHP: Change UTC time to local time 4 Jun 2011 | 09:10 am
Did you know that you can quickly change UTC time stamps to Local time by doing the following: It’s so obvious, but I only wished, I knew this before trying all sort of crazy stuff.
Unit Testing your AJAX requests with Zend Framework and PHPunit 16 Jan 2011 | 09:28 am
I ran into a problem yesterday, when trying to create a couple of unit tests using PHPunit along side the Zend Framework. If you want to unit test an action in a controller that checks the request to...
Fix GIT Lock after GIT Crash 10 Dec 2010 | 05:04 am
If you ever see the following message when trying to commit your code to a GIT repository. If no other git process is currently running, this probably means a git process crashed in this repository ...
Zend Framework: Internalization and Translation 7 Aug 2010 | 08:08 am
This week I set myself to lay the ground work of translation on the application we are doing at work. In our application we are using Zend Framework, so I decided to take a look into the Zend_Translat...
GetSimple Image Gallery – GSGallery v.2.0 Released 20 May 2010 | 08:50 am
It is my pleasure to let you guys know that I just released version 2.0 of the GetSimple Image Gallery Plugin. This is a stable release that includes many fixes and improvements over the last release ...
Useful CSS3 Resources 20 May 2010 | 01:40 am
I’ve been trying a couple of CSS3 features at work and on a couple of personal projects. Upon doing my usual search routine to find resources and information on google, I’ve stumble upon a couple of g...
GetSimple Plugins: Simple Image Gallery 11 Mar 2010 | 09:25 am
I think I’ve become addicted to GetSimple CMS. In 5 days I have fully developed 2 plugins (check out -> TweetMeme reTweet Button plugin) and started development in another. If you are a free-lance dev...
GetSimple Plugins: TweetMeme reTweet Button 6 Mar 2010 | 04:59 pm
This is my first attempt at creating plugins for Get Simple CMS, an awesome CMS system I’ve been playing around lately. So, I recommend you guys check it out, if you are looking for a “Simple” content...
Working with Google Charts and Visualization API 10 Nov 2009 | 12:00 am
This week I had the chance to play around with Google’s charts API, and let me tell you that I’m loving it. In the past couple of years I’ve had to integrate charts into the different projects. I have...
