Google’s Eric Schmidt posted this on his twitter account and I liked it so much, I decided to post it on yamdablam too.

Purpose: My purpose is for a URL forwarding system whereby I need to ensure that the target of the URL forward doesn’t match the domain the forward is being applied to. // Take in the domain and the target url $target=trim($_REQUEST['target']); $domain=trim($_REQUEST['domain']); // always in the format domain.tld // Use parse_url() to get an array [...]

For those residents of the peninsula who have a GPS enabled smart phone, you’ll be able to view Donabate and Portrane area like never before.

A really quick post mainly for myself, because I will need to remember this at some stage in the future $startDate=date(“Y-m-d”, strtotime(date(‘m’).’/01/’.date(‘Y’).’ 00:00:00′)); Enjoy!

To put it simply, I was blown away by this application. My mind was racing with ideas and to be frank, any excuse to get a layer of my own onto this service.

Learn how to extract GPS exif data from a images with PHP

Problem I was getting this particular error when decoding JSON data block from a web service. It basically is trying to assert that the data block is a different type to the variable which it is being assigned to. Meet solution Explore the data dump by using something like echo ‘<pre>’;  print_r($dataDump); echo ‘</pre>’; and [...]

This would be very useful for those companies who wish to track their marketing campaigns running on their website/twitter/Facebook accounts.

It doesn’t surprise me. Apple has not been performing well for me  or some friends lately. Shortly after its release, punters started reporting the problem. Apple denied it. Then a memo was release informing employees how to handle complaints about it. A.k.a damage control. Now Consumer Reports has done a u-turn and is not recommending [...]

Very handy linux command I keep forgetting so here it is: Scenario: You need to move a few thousand files from one directory to another on a linux server. The mv command gives the following complaint: “Argument list too long…” You can use this bad boy (assuming you are in the directory containing the files [...]