Using Propel with WampServer

Leonard — Sun, 06 May 2012 00:38:42 +0000

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 [...]

Dropbox with Plesk

Leonard — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 21:12:05 +0000

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 and [...]

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

Leonard — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 17:01:21 +0000

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

/away

Leonard — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 23:10:41 +0000

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 [...]

A PHP Class To Play With Microdata

Leonard — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 19:55:22 +0000

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. An example of [...]

Serve a different robots.txt for HTTPS

Leonard — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 15:45:53 +0000

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 few [...]

I own the oldest domain name in history…

Leonard — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 20:31:55 +0000

…or other such SEO friendly blog posts.

Create square thumbnails from any size image in PHP

Leonard — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 20:17:35 +0000

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 [...]

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

Leonard — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 15:38:43 +0000

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. [...]

SagePay Virtual Terminal Bookmarklet

Leonard — Sun, 29 May 2011 00:53:59 +0000

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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