January 2009
Posted on January 15, 2009 in Technology with 5 comments.
Even though I am an Ubuntu user (and fan) I still like to keep Windows on my machine in-case I need to test a website in IE or need to run Windows only software that does not run nicely under wine. I do not dual boot with Ubuntu and Windows, but instead I use VirtualBox [...]
Posted on January 14, 2009 in General with 9 comments.
While dealing with files and directories in PHP you will most likely at some point want to check if a folder/directory is empty. To do this, you need to write a script that does the check. There are two ways of doing this. The first is supported in PHP 4 and 5 only and the [...]
Posted on January 14, 2009 in General with 2 comments.
As you probably know, I relaunched my blog on 1st of January and since then it has really started to take off. I am getting quite a decent amount of search engine traffic and the amount of direct traffic I am getting is also on the increase (which tells me people like my posts and [...]
Posted on January 14, 2009 in General with 5 comments.
I have spent the whole day today dealing with files and folder structures with PHP and even though I have dealt with this quite a bit in the past, I still found that I needed to double check some of the functions on PHP.net. So I thought I would create a quick little reference guide [...]
Posted on January 13, 2009 in General with 4 comments.
I am busy developing a WordPress plugin that will automatically update your WordPress plugins in the background without you ever having to click a button. There will be various settings and you can even select plugins that you do not want to update automatically, but anyway, that is besides the point. Because the process of [...]
Posted on January 13, 2009 in Technology with 0 comments.
Owning a Nokia handset for me is like being in a love/hate relationship. Firstly, the phones are almost always wonderful phones to have. They generally have fairly good features and look very sexy. However, I have yet to meet someone who has not had a problem with buggy Nokia software. It seems like everyday I [...]
Posted on January 12, 2009 in Technology with 0 comments.
I first took a look at Qik a little while back and ended up extremely disappointed because it did not work on my SonyEricsson k800i. The next best alternative at the time was Kyte.tv (which by the way is also pretty cool), and so I signed up for that. Then today in the office Tyler [...]
Posted on January 11, 2009 in General with 1 comment.
When setting up this blog I made the decision not to include a blogroll on the sidebar. I have had blogrolls on previous blogs of mine but I found that they always did more harm than good. Not SEO wise but relationship wise. It’s a weird thing but people take offense to you not linking [...]
Posted on January 10, 2009 in Projects with 0 comments.
Thanks goes out to everyone who helped in the decision making (via comments and twitter) of the WordPress plugin that I am to develop this month. It was a tough decision cause all the plugins listed I think are worthy of being developed (and will be developed in time). In the end is came down [...]
Posted on January 10, 2009 in Technology with 0 comments.
I was just browsing my stats for the past week and a half since my new blog went live and noticed a very cool trend. Screen resolutions are getting bigger and bigger. Gone are the days where your website has to fit inside 768 pixels wide. Since I have relaunched this blog, only 0.7% (yes, [...]
My name is Matt. I am an adventurous web and mobile developer and this is my blog where I like to share my thoughts. More?
