Skillett.com

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...

Saving YouTube Videos to DVD

As I commented recently the BBC have had removed the fantastic Top Gear video from YouTube, LifeHacker have published info on how you can burn YouTube videos to DVD. Now burning them to DVD is pretty pointless as the quality on them will be absolutely awful, but there...

Broadcasting and YouTube!

Broadcasting is about to change, as more and more people start to use YouTube. You’ll notice that today, the video (that I posted last week), which showed rednecks chasing the Top Gear team does not work, this is because the BBC have had it removed from YouTube...

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:...