One of the things I found out about at Tuesday’s MSDN Northeast Roadshow stop in Augusta is the first New England GiveCamp, June 11-13 at Microsoft’s Northeast Research and Development center in Cambridge, MA. I’m attending, and I’d urge you to do so. A GiveCamp is basically a gathering of developers, DBAs, project managers, designers [...]
Archive of posts tagged PHP
A Strong Password Generator Written In PHP
There are a number of handy tools every PHP programmer needs in his toolbox, and among them is a strong password generator. This is especially true if you are programming membership-based Web sites, and you either want to generate initially strong passwords to hand out to end users, or you don’t want to give your [...]
Hacking WP-PluginsUsed To Remove Plugin Version Numbers
One of the greatest contributors to the WordPress plugins repository is Lester “GaMerZ” Chan. It’s testament to the value of his contributions that his work has not only been duplicated, borrowed and built upon by hundreds of other plugin developers — just search “gamerz” in the WordPress plugins repository to see how many times his [...]
Grouping Your WordPress Blog Comments By Type: Comments, Trackbacks And Pingbacks
First, my apologies for the extended period of time off I took from this blog. There’s no great scandal behind the break I took; my health and humor are just fine. As Technorati notes, somewhere around 95 percent of blogs haven’t been updated in three months; I just kind of fell into that groove. But [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
