Tech notes
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Screen vs tmux
GNU Screen and tmux are terminal multiplexers designed for Unix-like platforms. They are basically window managers for text consoles instead…
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Running PHPUnit tests in Eclipse PDT
Working with PHPUnit and Eclipse PDT has always been a bit of a pain. We ended up using it as an external…
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Debugging with audio
Sometimes you just want to know that you took the right branch in an if statement, or that the value…
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PDF DOC XLS ODF from PHP?
Every PHP developer will sooner or later face a request to output a document as a PDF, XLS, DOC or…
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Writing MySQL functions in C
In the previous post Zdenek explained how to use MySQL stored functions to calculate the distance between two points on the…
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Automatic geolocation and SQL
Recently we launched a website and platform for iGo Gift Vouchers. One of the screens shows an interactive list of the…
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Published writings, 2000-2005
Since 2000, I have written many articles for magazines like .net and Computer Arts. I also have written two introductory…
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CMYK, RGB and PHP
What a lot of acronyms. We want to automate converting colour spaces in a web app. It’s not easy. A…
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PHP UTF-8 cheatsheet
Stopgap guide to going UTF-8 When we started building DropSend, we decided to support all languages worldwide from the start. The…