Mar

8

Linking to Twitter and Facebook from a website

March 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment

This week I’ve worked on a social lightbox for Teeorama allowing our visitors to tweet or write on their Facebook walls from our tee-shirt shop.The lightbox itself is built using ColorBox, a powerful and customizable lightbox library built on JQuery (MIT License). The Twitter tool is fairly easy to setup, I used bit.ly to generate [...]

Feb

22

Where are your users from, part 2

February 22, 2010 | 1 Comment

Recently, I wrote about geolocalisation of your users/visitors based on the IP to Country table. After using it for a couple of months, I found it painful to have to regularly update the table (even if some people came up with an automatic work around based on PERL scripts for example).
So, I decided to find another way [...]

Feb

13

Setting up Code Igniter

February 13, 2010 | 1 Comment

A few months ago, we jumped into Teeorama, a PHP based online tee-shirt store front end for Spreadshirt. We finally completed the project and we’re planning on opening it to the public tomorrow. By the way, if you feel you could use a new Geek shirt, please head over to teeorama.com before reading on…

When I [...]

Jan

22

CKEditor, enable the image or flash upload

January 22, 2010 | 1 Comment

CKEditor is a greatly improved version of the famous FCKEditor. The generated source code is clean and well indented, the whole thing loads faster and feels less buggy. It even looks better.
What I really like though, is the new settings that allow for precise definition of what we want to encode or not and how [...]

Jan

21

Where are your users from?

January 21, 2010 | 1 Comment

If you ever wonder where your readers are from, if you ever need to adjust your application to the origins of its users; you can determine the geographic location of a connection by using an IP to Country table.
I should start by saying that I do not always like the way websites use this feature. [...]

Jan

16

PHP Help as a Man Page (with Pear)

January 16, 2010 | 1 Comment

Alexandre blogged last week about how to install pman and add a contextual help within VI for PHP functions. Tthis post is merely a quick note of the procedure. I like the speed of pman as opposed to browsing php.net. I didn’t install the VI part, I use Textmate these days.
The procedure is actually straight [...]

Dec

2

Installing PHP Unit on Mac OS X running Zend Server CE

December 2, 2009 | 2 Comments

The main trick is not to mix pear as is /usr/bin/pear and /usr/local/zend/bin/pear. If you have already installed PHPUnit using the default Mac OS X Pear, do not mix /usr/bin/phpunit and /usr/local/zend/bin/phpunit.
That confusion out of the way, it seems the pear installed with the zend server is far from up to date. RUpdate it as [...]

Nov

4

Open Flash Chart, IE6 ad SSL: dangerous mix

November 4, 2009 | 1 Comment

I recently used Open Flash Chart to display statistics in a PHP based application. The library proved pozerful and easy to use. When the development was completed and moved to the production server (over https) the charts failed to display for IE6 (and Safari) users. Instead, the browser would try and download the page as [...]

Aug

21

Add any HTML to your Wordpress posts with EmbedIt (plugin – tweaked)

August 21, 2009 | 8 Comments

We were in need of a Wordpress plugin allowing us to add any HTML code in our posts for our Filmmaking blog World Wide Angle. Looking around on Google a little I stumbled upon EmbedIt by Matteo Ionescu. The plugin allows you to add a tag in your code like [HTMLx] and have it replace [...]

Mar

29

World Gone Web Mobile

March 29, 2009 | 3 Comments

Thanks to a post on Rob Gray’s blog I discovered WP Touch, a wordpress plugin that offers an optional mobile interface to iPhone/iPodTouch users visiting your blog. The result for this blog is as follow :
 
 
 
The plugin will leave your mobile visitors the possibility to browse your regular site by turning off the Mobile Theme [...]

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