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Serving static files from a different domain

By Paul October 16, 2011Performance

Whilst debugging a site last week, I noticed the following header was being sent to the server with each request (actual name/value removed): Cookie: cookiename=cookievalue When requesting the main PHP…

If PHP Were British

By Paul August 28, 2011General

Forwarded to me by a fellow PHP developer: If PHP Were British.

Requirements for WordPress 3.2

By Paul July 4, 2011WordPress

Are you ready for WordPress 3.2? The next version of the popular blogging software is due to be released soon and has higher minimum requirements than previous versions, including: PHP…

PHP North West conference 2011

By Paul June 26, 2011Conferences

Once again the PHP NW Conference is coming to Manchester in October, and the schedule is now online. All of the talks look interesting, although having realised that they run…

Postcode validation and verification

By Paul June 18, 2011Libraries2 Comments

If you run a UK website which collects any sort of address information, you will no doubt have come across the potentially thorny subject of postcodes. Specifically, you will want…

Usernames in web applications

By Paul June 12, 2011General

Nelson Minar has an interesting post on username restrictions in web applications (via rc3.org). I agree that email addresses are better than usernames, as they can be remembered easily, rarely…

Pub Gateway launched

By Paul June 4, 2011General

Last week I launched Pub Gateway, a directory of pubs in the British Isles which focuses on precise geographical data and no intrusive advertising. It's written entirely in PHP with…

flickr Lookup released

By Paul May 9, 2011Libraries

Over the weekend I released the first version of flickr Lookup, a PHP library for accessing flickr via its API. It's a simple wrapper which turns API requests into PHP…

MaPit Lookup released

By Paul May 1, 2011Libraries

I've just released the first version of MaPit Lookup, a PHP library for MaPit, the mapping information service from the chaps at mySociety. It's a simple wrapper which turns MaPit…

WordPress 3.1.1 is out

By Paul April 9, 2011WordPress

It's only a minor release. but the 26 fixed issues make upgrading worthwhile.