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A first bite of CakePHP

I’ve long been interested in some rapid development PHP framework to speed up my development time, I’m well aware that starting to use one could slow me up in the interim, but once I was fully up to speed with any of the major frameworks I would probably...

Recording shows from BBC Listen Again

I’ve wanted to do this so many time and I know a few other people that have wanted to as well! (I’ll be emailing this to them). So if you’ve ever wanted to download streaming audio and save it to an MP3 player this is how to go about downling an rm...

Creating Excel Spreadsheets on the Fly!

I was shown this yesterday, I’ve always exported stuff to CSV and then re-imported it when I’ve wanted to get an Excel Spreadsheet out of my webserver When you are sending your response content-type back simply return a table with the response type set as:...

PIPES and their uses?

Not for plumbing (although that’s a whole other story at the minute!!), but data pipes are always something that has interested me, my biggest issue I think is finding something that I would pipe together. Before I go any further I should explain what pipes are:...

PHP Script Assistance

No, I don’t want somebody to write them for me (although it would be very nice!), I want to speed up my development time sometimes. I get bogged down in the code and could do with sorting that problem. So I’m having a look at a few things that might help...

To Vista or not To Vista

Apparently I can’t have Vista (not that I was considering it until it stabilised anyway!!!), but according to the Windows Vista Upgrade Chart I fall at the final hurdle and must win the lottery before I’m allowed to upgrade 🙁