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Using Propel with WampServer

By Leonard On Sunday 6th May 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Databases

One of the more unfortunate things I have to do is work with WampServer. Fair enough, the bulk is just standard Apache/MySQL/PHP configuration, but when it comes to support, available resources and just generally having to work in such a limited operating system, it can be a little depressing. Luckily not everything is impossible in [...]

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Dropbox with Plesk

By Leonard On Saturday 31st March 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Servers

Those who have seen my previous posts know I am a huge fan of Dropbox. If you’ve been living in a microwave for the last five years and aren’t lucky enough to be using, or low and behold, heard of it, yet, Dropbox is a backup [...]

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TortoiseSVN: When “Upgrade the working copy to the new 1.7 format” doesn’t work

By Leonard On Friday 6th January 2012 · 5 Comments · In Quick Tips

As I’ve probably said before I’m not a fan of working on Windows, but sometimes the choice isn’t yours to be made. Couple this with the problems you have with SVN, where pieces of software like WordPress, which will often obliterate your metadata directories during updates, things can quickly turn sour. Recently I had to

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/away

By Leonard On Monday 19th December 2011 · Leave a Comment · In General

Wow. What a crazy quarter of a year (double wow!) since my last blog post. I’m almost in the position to start posting more often again, so I thought I’d wet my whistle with a little update on what’s been happening the last few months.

I’ll start with a tl;dr version:

Got a new cat [...]

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A PHP Class To Play With Microdata

By Leonard On Sunday 21st August 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Programming

Recently I’ve been reading about and playing with Microdata. For those who’ve never heard of Microdata, you may have heard of microformats or RDFa. Still no? Let me explain.

Web sites are made up of lots of interesting information. [...]

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Serve a different robots.txt for HTTPS

By Leonard On Friday 19th August 2011 · Leave a Comment · In SEO

According to Google, each protocol (here we’re talking about HTTP and HTTPS) should have it’s own robots.txt file. This makes sense, especially seeing as Google will see https://www.yoursite.com/ and http://www.yoursite.com/ as different web sites - which they’re probably not. Duplication is a bad thing.

I’ve recently noticed quite a [...]

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I own the oldest domain name in history…

By Leonard On Saturday 23rd July 2011 · Leave a Comment · In General

…or other such SEO friendly blog posts.

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Create square thumbnails from any size image in PHP

By Leonard On Tuesday 5th July 2011 · 2 Comments · In Programming

I’ve recently been working on a gallery type web site for a local artist. It’s great when so much content is given to you at the start of a project, but sometimes it can be a real pain preparing all the images to put in your gallery. The problem I was having with these particular [...]

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Grab Your Google Seller Rating To Display On Your Own Web Site

By Leonard On Monday 13th June 2011 · 2 Comments · In Programming

I was recently asked to come up with a script to grab a store’s Google Seller Rating to display it as part of the web site. It’s really quite simple…

I presume CMI stands for checkout merchant ID or something similar. Just browse to your Seller reviews page and grab it from the query string. [...]

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SagePay Virtual Terminal Bookmarklet

By Leonard On Sunday 29th May 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Programming

Lots of organisations take orders over the phone as well as through their web site, and lots of those use the SagePay Virtual Terminal.

This is a really handy service, but it’s not very integrated. Although there are generally more elegant solutions available to companies who wish to spend more and put more development time [...]

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  • What I’ve been saying

    • Using Propel with WampServer
    • Dropbox with Plesk
    • TortoiseSVN: When “Upgrade the working copy to the new 1.7 format” doesn’t work
    • /away
    • A PHP Class To Play With Microdata
  • What others have been saying

    • Mark Bradley on Don’t buy from soccertriads.com
    • Leonard on Don’t buy from soccertriads.com
    • Giovanni on Don’t buy from soccertriads.com
    • james on Don’t buy from soccertriads.com
    • Leonard on Create square thumbnails from any size image in PHP
  • What I've been tweeting

    • @omid9 but that'd mean another team lost a place who expected one wouldn't it.Imagine if spurs lost a spot because Barca placed low but won! 8 hours ago
    • RT @sunny_hundal: Twitter, I'm really disappointed this Cameron pic hasn't been turned into meme yet. Here's the transparent gif http:// ... 8 hours ago
    • @omid9 why is it a disgrace? I'd prefer Spurs to be in the champs league, but you, I and all teams knew the rules before a ball was kicked. 8 hours ago
    • @SteJay what a lovely place to live, eh? When it snows it's wonderful :) on Halyard Croft myself. 8 hours ago
    • @thisgirlrox city will probably buy him just to take the piss 8 hours ago
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