Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category

I have made an update to my search rank checker for http://sheldon.lendrum.co.nz to paginate the results. With over 4500 records, the list was getting a bit long.
I have paginated it by rank’s rather than equal pages.
Check it out – http://sheldon.lendrum.co.nz/search-rank-for-sheldonlendrumconz/,

I needed a quick way to include different files based on the if the visitor to a site is on a mobile device or a regular browser/computer.
Every browser has a user agent depending on the operating system, browser and system.
below are some common use agents, they can be found by echoing the server variable HTTP_USER_AGENT

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I use the great CodeIgniter, PHP Framework a lot, Most site’s now days I create use it. One of the many good things is that way it handles pages request’s and PHP $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] to find which page we are on.
Here is how it works;

http://www.sheldon.lendrum.co.nz/posts/my-segment/my-page/15/2009/12

Now the way we do things, is break the site up, based [...]

In preparation to a major overhaul of this site, I have moved my RSS feeds to Google’s FeedBurner.
Please alter your RSS subscription links to ;
http://feeds.feedburner.com/sheldonlendrum

I came across some neat free Icons a couple of day’s ago. I found 178 free icons by WooThemes.
They suited my needs for some navigation icons I was after, so after a quick download, I have them all. Great.
Now, when I code, I’m all about speed of page loads with our reducing quality of [...]

Over the last year or so, I have used a PHP Framework Code Igniter, Amongst many of its good features is its built in Form Validation Library.
Every now and then I either write a a small site out of Code Ignite, or help others to write or develop sections of their site, I constantly get [...]

Javascript frameworks are great, no matter which one you use their all built to do more, quickly.
I use Mootools for most of my JS needs, and something is I often use is the AJAX request functionality.
Today I needed to send not only HTML back, but Javascript.
Here are the steps I needed to follow to not [...]

Recently the firm I work for got a job to rewrite the Online Quotation calculator for a local tauranga Painted Glass company called GlassArt.
We took the existing design and completely recoded the site, the original company had done such a job that it was easier to start over than try and use the mess that [...]