PHP Shorthand If Notation or the Ternary Operator

Posted on February 27, 2013 by Brian M McGarvie — 2 Comments ↓

Why should I care about PHP Shorthand If Notation or the Ternary Operator

Programming would be a bit useless without being able to evaluate conditions using if/end and switch statements. If/Else statements is obviously a great tool, but they aren’t optimal (or necessary) in all situations. And so I introduce you to … PHP Shorthand If Notation or the Ternary Operator.

Ternary operator takes the form “(condition) ? (true return value) : (false return value)” to shorten your if/else structures.
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Tagged with: Development Approach, Notation, PHP, Programming, Shorthand, Ternary Operators
Posted in PHP, Programming, Web Design

Hawaiian Cruise (and visit to Los Angeles) on the Golden Princess

Posted on February 26, 2013 by Brian M McGarvie — No Comments ↓

Our Hawaiian Cruise (and visit to Los Angeles) on board the Golden Princess Cruise November-December 2011.

During this trip we visited the Hawaiian Islands and spent a few nights in Los Angeles on the way back.

OK, it’s taken me over a year to finish writing this up – keep not finding time to do it! I will add some photos in the next few days.

Tagged with: Cruise, Hawaii, LA, Los Angeles, Princess Cruises, Travell & (mis)Adventures
Posted in Travell & (mis)Adventures

jQuery – Scroll page to position of an element/div

Posted on September 24, 2012 by Brian M McGarvie — No Comments ↓

When you’re working with a complex page that has a load of areas on-screen, making use of this small function below to scroll to the location will enhance you’re user experience by saving them needing to scroll… take them straight to it!

Tagged with: Auto Scroll, JavaScript, jQuery, Programming
Posted in jQuery, Programming, Web Design

Rocking in Hyde Park with Jon Bon Jovi at Hard Rock Calling – 25th June 2011

Posted on June 28, 2011 by Brian M McGarvie — No Comments ↓

Having booked tickets a lifetime ago (or felt like it), the day finally came.

We were in the queue around 10/10:30PM and so we were about the first people in… so picnic rug in hand set up fort middle center just 2 or 3 rows from the front of the pleb partition. while the queues for entrance stretch through Hyde Park on a glorious day unlike the damp start to the weekend. But we did visit the Park while The Killers were on, crowd was nowhere near as big as Saturday but nonetheless sounded like a good show from what I heard under my tree from the rain. And ‘wet’ our appetite for Jon Bon Jovi on the Saturday…

Posted in All The Rest

Hints to help optimise the performance of a PHP website (LAMP)

Posted on June 15, 2011 by Brian M McGarvie — No Comments ↓

Over time, the websites I have been involved in have became more and more complex (and indeed carry more and more traffic).

And so the ever increasing need to optimise and increase the performance of your website (or web-application) becomes more crucial.

As you will appreciate this is a HUGE subject, so I aim to simply put you on the path to devising a better architecture and design. But I will attempt to introduce some ideas to assist…

Tagged with: Cache, Caching, Optimisation, Performance, PHP
Posted in PHP, Programming

Working with Dates & Timestamps in PHP

Posted on May 25, 2011 by Brian M McGarvie — No Comments ↓

Working with Dates and Timestamps is always trying, but using UNIX timestamps can save you a lot of time and hassle!
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Tagged with: Dates, PHP, Timestamps
Posted in PHP, Programming

Calibrate HTC Desire battery – help improve your battery life!

Posted on May 25, 2011 by Brian M McGarvie — No Comments ↓

Need to stabalise the battery life on your HTC Desire? This will help a little… Read on…

Tagged with: Android, Battery Life, HTC Desire
Posted in HTC Desire, Tips & Tricks

Get element with CSS class name or id with jQuery

Posted on May 25, 2011 by Brian M McGarvie — 3 Comments ↓

Get element with CSS class name or id with jQuery, jQuery is extremley powerful and a time (and even life) saver, using jQuery, you can get elements with CSS class name and id easily without too much blood and tears!

Tagged with: JavaScript, jQuery, Programming
Posted in JavaScript, jQuery, Programming

Why does php not show errors? – How to display PHP errors when display_errors is disabled

Posted on May 24, 2011 by Brian M McGarvie — No Comments ↓

OK, a simple thing I know. But one that always occurs.

When using shared hosting (or even your own dedicated servers), those managing those servers do their utmost to make them secure. Among many things this usually includes turning off ‘display_errors’ in the php.ini file.

However, when you’re trying to develop things it is usefull to display errors and warnings, but if ‘display_errors’ is off, you will be scratching your head wondering what’s going on and whats going wrong!
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Tagged with: Debugging, Development Approach, PHP
Posted in PHP, Programming

Watch your battery!

Posted on March 8, 2011 by Brian M McGarvie — No Comments ↓

Having had the HTC for over a week now, I am beginning to get to grips with how to get he most out of it… especially when it comes to battery life.

DO NOT let it run too dry! Seems to have trouble charging (from USB) if you’d managed to let it get too low!
Be carefull what apps you install… soem apps seem to drain power wven if not in use!

Tagged with: Android, HTC Desire
Posted in HTC Desire, Tips & Tricks

Beginning your journey in Object-Oriented Programming using PHP

Posted on December 5, 2010 by Brian M McGarvie

Object-Orientated programming is not a new idea! It’s been around and available for a long time in many languages.

With each new version of PHP, new features appear, while existing features are improved. PHP’s object support has been hugley improved since it’s introduction in PHP3 (yes it has had it all this time!). And so with PHP’s object support maturing, the reasons developers might not take an object orientated approach are getting smaller. More recently PHP5′s take on objects is much more powerfull and usable than it ever has been for PHP users – but still not without it’s faults.

A common problem that experienced (and new) PHP developers have when embarking on their object-orientated (OOP) journey is thet they don’t know WHEN to use it properly! As with all things there is a time and place for everything.

For those who do not know about OOP I am not even going to attempt to explain what it is! But fact you have found this article means you probably do, but incase not Wikipedia has good general background info on OOP.

Tagged with: Development Approach, Object Oriented PHP, OOP, PHP
Posted in PHP, Programming

Tools & Tips…

Posted on August 12, 2010 by Brian M McGarvie — No Comments ↓

Well, I’m going to try to divulge more of my development experiance to others. Starting with some ‘Tools & Tips‘.

Let me know if there are any topics/questions from all forms of development PHP, Java, .NET .. and management (people & projects) aspects of the IT world too!

Posted in Programming, SEO & SEM, Software, Technology, Web Design

Album Review: Delphic – Acolyte

Posted on February 4, 2010 by Brian M McGarvie — No Comments ↓

матрацимаси и столове Delphic - Acolyte

Delphic Acolyte

On first listen to “Acolyte” it was an amazing journey of indie and dance. A dense but sharply-focussed amalgamation of sparkling synths, dance-friendly rhythms and intelligently constructed vocal melodies and harmonies.

Before I dive in and look at the tracks I will start with an overall view of this fine piece of very well executed music. Delphic have developed a distinct and original sound that genuinely is a blend of indie and dance. It’s a sound that’s almost ruthlessly efficient and faceless, and almost risks being difficult for some to connect with. There are many real moments of promise here, not least when they let go of their inhibitions with the incredibly layered album closer “Remain”. But for me it is their vocalist that gives the songs urgency and life that lift “Acolyte” to being very good; for every wave of synth, there’s a lyric loaded with warmth and spirit.

Tagged with: Dance, Delphic, Indie, Music Review
Posted in Music, Review

Making your website work with Internet Explorer 8 (IE8)

Posted on October 23, 2009 by Brian M McGarvie — No Comments ↓

OK probly well known by now. But if you’re site is ‘broken’ in IE8, you could try the following which tells IE8 to work liek IE7.

<meta http-equiv=”X-UA-Compatible” content=”IE=7″ />

It belongs in the document’s HEAD. More importantly it needs to be preferably at the top of the HEAD section before any css, linked files etc.

The rule of thumb is, that the IE 8 meta tag needs to be placed above any linked files.

Tagged with: Browsers, CSS, IE 8, Web Design
Posted in Browsers, CSS, Web Design

Review: Michael McIntyre on his 2009 Tour @ Nottingham’s Trent FM Arena on the 26/09/2009.

Posted on October 22, 2009 by Brian M McGarvie — No Comments ↓

Michael Mcintyre

Well, we went and seen Michael McIntyre on his 2009 Tour @ Nottingham’s Trent FM Arena on the 26/09/2009.

It was part of my wifes birthday present as she has always quite liked him I thought it would be a good surprise. I bought the tickets and booked hotel 2 weeks before it, and managed to not tell her untill the night before – I said ‘pack a bag’, still not telling her what for though – infact she never knew right up untill we walked into the Trent FM arena!

Tagged with: Concert, Michael McIntyre
Posted in Events (Concerts, Theatre etc)

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