As the title implies we’ve now added online/offline functionality and the ability to toggle the user list to show only friends or all members.... Read More

There’s been a lot of discussion on whether Python, Ruby or insert your favorite dynamic language, is a good lisp.... Read More

This time I’m going to go through the code for Paceville’s chat in a chronological order from the user’s point of view, as follows:... Read More

Today was a bad PHP day, a very bad PHP day. Now all of the below is known by seasoned PHP coders already, you learn to live with it, however it does make for a good anectode, rarely does PHP’s crappier aspects converge in such a profound way to completely screw you up for hours on end.... Read More

Update: Paceville.com is now online to check out the interface go here.... Read More

Update: The following code is now using the HTML5 XHR upload capabilities instead of the Flash uploader, you might want to check that out.... Read More

I’m wrapping up the Joomla work here so it’s time to talk a bit about security. There are two main issues, sanitizing GET and POST and making sure people who are not supposed to call certain methods can’t do so. ... Read More

Update: Paceville.com is now online.... Read More

I’ve been doing some SOAP work lately (communicating with Java services by way of XML) and it’s time to recap how unbelievably hassle free and simple this is with the right tools.... Read More

A few weeks ago I was discussing a project with Charlie Madison of ProWebScape. He mentioned H2O, that he would rather use that than Smarty. So I checked it out and it seemed like the natural evolution in PHP templating.... Read More