Author Archives: Sheldon Lendrum

Linux Crontab helpful hints

Posted on January 14, 2012 by Sheldon Lendrum

* * * * * command to be executed ┬ ┬ ┬ ┬ ┬ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ └───── day of week (0 – 6) (Sunday=0 ) │ │ │ … Continue reading →

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Calculating memory used by PHP to generate that page

Posted on July 5, 2011 by Sheldon Lendrum

Do you know how much memory those loops are using ? Why is this page taking so long to load ? Well with this simple PHP code you can daily benchmark different versions of your script to use the least … Continue reading →

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PHP Framework – Day 1

Posted on April 26, 2011 by Sheldon Lendrum

Start of simple, start off clean. I am going to assume a few things in these posts, PHP 5.2 or above. ( 5.3 is better ) mySQL is our database of choice. You understand the basics of setting up a … Continue reading →

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Beginners Guide to PHP Happiness.

Posted on April 24, 2011 by Sheldon Lendrum

Lately I have been seeing some nastiness being taught to a group of Junior web developers. It comprises of maxing all sorts of nasty combinations of mixing your PHP, HTML, classes, queries and stand alone functions into an unorganised pile … Continue reading →

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PHP Dump/Debug script.

Posted on February 3, 2011 by Sheldon Lendrum

Ever use PHP’s var_dump() or print_r() to debug what is going wrong with that $data you have ? Well, this simple script acts as the above functions, yours first parameter is your data, and the second optional parameter is stoping … Continue reading →

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Webkit custom scroll bars

Posted on February 3, 2011 by Sheldon Lendrum

Webkit browsers such as Safari and Chrome support some superb CSS3 styling. They are ( even thought I use firefox as my primary browser ) the most advanced browsers. For a while now I have created custom scroll bars using … Continue reading →

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Mootools Gallery ZoomBox Plugin

Posted on November 29, 2010 by Sheldon Lendrum

I needed a simple lightweight Mootools Gallery Lightbox, and after a few googles, I found nothing that suited my needs with out all the extra ‘captions’ and grouping and bloat. This is a simple zoom from start position type lightbox … Continue reading →

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BounceBox Version 1.2 with Mootools 1.3 support

Posted on October 26, 2010 by Sheldon Lendrum

After around 19 months of inactive development I have updated my Mootools BounceBox class to support The current selector method and fix an Event issue in some browsers when opening the Box. Try out the demo at http://bouncebox.lendrum.co.nz and download … Continue reading →

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