As this blog has gotten more popular and, as a result, started ranking well with Google, the spamming here has become incessant — to the point where faithful, reliable, old Akismet alone isn’t good enough.
Akismet has caught nearly 16,000 spam comments here in just under three years, and only accidentally labeled three comments as spam [...]
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Calculating The Bearing And Compass Rose Direction Between Two Latitude / Longitude Coordinates In PHP
A comment recently made to my blog post, “Getting All ZIP Codes In A Given Radius From A Known Point / ZIP Code Via PHP And MySQL“:
Does any one know how to work out the bearing from one set of coordinates to another.
For example, if the calculated bearing was 90 (degrees) the using if statements [...]
Working With The Authorize.net Customer Information Manager (CIM), Part 1: Overview
I’m going to spend several posts discussing authorize.net’s Customer Information Manager, a Web service for storing and retrieving personally identifiable information about the people who place credit card orders on your Web site.
Today, I’m focusing solely on an overview of CIM: What it is, how it works, why it works that way, and approaches to [...]
Parent – Child Select Lists Revisited: Multiple Parent – Child Select Lists Via PHP, MySQL And jQuery
A while ago, I promised to answer Brian’s request for a demonstration of how to make multiple parent / child select lists — in other words, starting from one drop down / select list, having two or more child lists, each of which, in turn, may act as a parent to another list.
Multiple parent-child select [...]
Sorting Your MySQL Results Set In PHP Using jQuery (And A More Traditional Approach)
Recently asked at Yahoo! Answers:
Sort ORDER BY links for each COLUMN of MYSQL database in PHP page?
These are the links I am currently using but they are just on the bottom of the page int he middle of no where…
<p>Sort By:</p>
<p><a href=”address.php”>address</a></p>
<p><a href=”email.php”>email</a></p>
<p><a href=”name.php”>name</a></p>
<p><a href=”phone.php”>phone</a></p>
<p><a href=”tvprogram.php”>tvprogram</a></p>
Additional Details
I currently have a form where users input their [...]
Meet The New Host, Same As The Old Host
Well, I gave DreamHost PS a try. And let me tell you, it works great.
So why is this blog back on my DreamHost shared account? A few reasons; mostly, there’s no payoff between the cost and the performance difference, at least for this blog.
I got in on DreamHost PS as part of a promotion that [...]
