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timeout, a setTimeout wrapper for jQuery

June 12, 2009 Tagged in:

Timeout is a simple jQuery plugin that allows you to delay the execution of code for a certain number of milliseconds. It works like the jQuery delay plugin http://www.evanbot.com/article/jquery-delay-plugin/4 which i didn't know existed at the time I wrote this plugin. plugin code /* timeout a setTimeout wrapper for jQuery... Read more

Caching Dynamic PHP Pages Easliy

April 10, 2009 Tagged in:

php

Over the past month or so I have been toying with the idea of developing a way to cache dynamic PHP pages with out a lot of overhead. I stumbled across this blog entry: http://papermashup.com/caching-dynamic-php-pages-easily the idea was so simple it was almost too easy. So I took it upon... Read more

which statement is faster, elseif() or switch() ?

November 30, 2008 Tagged in:

A couple of days ago I was out on a run and I starting wondering which statement was faster, a elseif() or a switch(). I am a big fan of switch statements. I like how clean they look and its really easy to add a new condition to them. I... Read more

PHP MySQL Row Lock function

October 15, 2008 Tagged in:

php
mysql

I just started on a project that I knew was going to need some sort of data lock that would prevent 2 users from editing the same data at the same time. At first I thought that i would have to write a function that behaved like the C function... Read more

JW player with SWFObject

August 14, 2008 Tagged in:

JavaScript

Recently i was working on a project that required a flash media player. I was trying to integrate JW FLV Media Player using SWFObject. After losing a few hours of my life trying to pass a variable in a query string to a php script that generated a XML play... Read more

php forcing SSL Connection

August 01, 2008 Tagged in:

php
SSL

I was updating some code on dirtondirt.com. We had changed the way sessions/logins where used on the site. Everything worked great in Firefox. But we were getting complaints that it was randomly dropping logged in users using IE . I was was not able to recreate the issue so it... Read more

php session drop cookie fix for Internet Explorer

July 24, 2008 Tagged in:

I was updating some code on dirtondirt.com. We had changed the way sessions/logins where used on the site. Everything worked great in Firefox. But we were getting complaints that it was randomly dropping logged in users using IE . I was was not able to recreate the issue so it... Read more

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