After just going through a lot of searching around to figure out how to fix the WiFi for a new Jolicloud installation, I thought I’d chronicle the issue and solution that worked for me. As you probably know, Jolicloud is a neat little netbook OS built on top  of Ubuntu’s netbook OS to run web apps natively. I opted to run it on an old Dell Inspiron 1720 as an easy-to-use and free OS for my brother to use (as letting him try...

I’ve just begun working with Blueprint, a fairly popular CSS framework, and was soon annoyed with having to manually toggle it’s convenient built-in grid while lining up layouts. The only thing I could find to do it for me was a bookmarklet, but I’m not in the habit of using those and in the past have worked with Less Framework 4, for which a crafty developer named Arnau March made a neat little jQuery grid toggle button....

A common issue most PHP developers run into is what date format should be used between PHP and MySQL. Converting can be a big pain, and their favorite formats could not be any different. CodeIgniter has a lot of great date functions (aka, “helpers“), but none really fit the bill to make it really simple to convert PHP time (seconds since Unix Epoch) to MySQL’s datetime format, which is really the best way to store dates...

Introduction One feature many popular sites implement is persistent login, or the ability for a user to stay logged in for long periods of time – well beyond the time they last visited the site and subsequently closed their browser. Many basic login protocols web developers put in place either deal with cookies, which is valid until the date the web developer has specified, or sessions, which are only valid until the browser is...

There are plenty of tutorials and articles on uploading files to a server, but not quite as many about uploading to a database. Developing database-driven (or at least supported) applications is almost a right of passage for the bonafide PHP developer. As your applications become more ambitious and the database plays a larger role in them, uploading files to your database instead of the file server makes more sense in many scenarios. The...

So, I’ve finally done what I’ve always said I would do (but never made the time to do…) and just set myself up on a blog to share with others my experiences and various projects – typically those involving PHP applications. Hopefully I will make time to blog often enough to make it useful Here are a few topics one could expect to see in the future: * PHP – tricks, applications, etc * Linux – probably nothing too advanced,...