Digital Ocean, Linode and Vultr offer some fantastic Virtual Server solutions from as little as $5. A comparison table of the entry level virtual servers from these three providers are listed below and any of them will provide a great solution if you want to run your own server. Full control over your configuration Easily…
This will redirect domain.com www.domain.com domain.co.uk www.domain.co.uk www.domain.net to domain.net
Most people are already familiar with Google Maps, so why not utilise that to present your business data to your users. Today I am going to show you how to use the Google Maps API to track vehicles using their AVL data. This is something I have done for the Fire Service to show the…
Google Maps provides a standard Marker marker image that looks like this and whilst I do not intend to offend Ji Lee, this icon can be replaced with an image of your choice. By using PHP to create an image dynamically on the fly you can have images that provide much more information.
The excuse for a party generator is a playground that has allowed me to use my PHP Date Class. PHP already includes date functions, but these only work on certain date ranges and would not allow dates from say the 18th Century. My own date class allows a wider range of dates and provides functions…
If you have not come across design patterns, they are well worth reading up on. There is a great overview for PHP developers at IBM.
Took me a litle while to work out how to do this as I thought it would be an option for a page, but it was nowhere to be found. My solution was to use the CSS to specifically target the h2 element on the page using the fact that the parent div has the…
Since I swapped out four 250Gb SATA drives for two 750Gb drives the startup time has been delayed by a matter of minutes as the ICH8R Raid Controller sat thinking about detecting the new drives. Changing the BIOS setting from RAID to IDE removed the problem completely, but alas no RAID. I recently came across…
As someone who spends a lot of time at the keyboard I find that RSI (Repetitive Strain Injury) is a constant visitor. Working on a laptop, even with a full-sized keyboard I find that the little finger of my left hand is the biggest problem as it spends so much time at the bottom left…
This will display ten dates starting from yesterday. The words Yesterday and Today will be added to the relevant dates.