Archive for July, 2007
Sending emails with PHP
I got the idea recently that I’d upgrade a feedback form that I have on my photo gallery so that it would email me me comments left by visitors rather than just storing them on the web server for later perusal. I opened up my copy of PHP Unleashed (John Coggeshall, SAMS), turned to the [...]
Web Development
FCKEditor for WordPress
The standard WordPress post editor got broken on this blog so my mind turned to replacing and I spied plugins for adding FCKEditor to the thing. Dean Lee’s is the one that I am using and it seems to work well so far too. As this is FCKEditor, there are more editing options than those [...]
Taking a camera on a walk…
On Saturday, I happened to be in Jessops and overheard a salesman emphatically state that you don’t buy a camera for its specifications but for the photos that it produces. While his tone of voice was a touch condescending and he seemed to be putting down a DSLR, he was essentially right. Nevertheless, the specifications [...]
Photographic EquipmentSAS9 SQL Constraints
With SAS9, SAS Institute have introduced the sort sort of integrity constraints that have been bread and butter for relational database SQL programs but some SAS programmers may find them more restrictive than they might like. The main one that comes to my mind is the following: proc sql noprint; create table a as select [...]
ProgrammingUsing external JavaScript files? Just don’t load them at the bottom of the page…
Looking through Google Analytics for my websites, I have always been struck by the lack of IE7 uptake seemingly apparent from the statistics. However, I recently discovered that there may be a reason for this. I use the Ultimate GA plugin with my WordPress blogs and that adds the JavaScript code block near the bottom [...]
A change of theme…
After sticking with Andreas09 for so long, I have been lured into using Prosumer instead. A spot of tweaking has turned it from a fixed width layout into something a spot more fluid. It’s more edgy than its predecessor but I hope to make things appear a touch more harmonious, to my eyes anyway, over [...]