SHA1 in PHP and MySQL
September 21, 2009 10:59 am Comments (0)Wrote a brief note on the speed of digests in PHP vs. the speed of the same digest in MySql.
Read it at http://fwebde.com/php/encryption-php-vs-mysql/
Writing a Wordpress Widget
January 17, 2009 3:52 pm Comments (1)Summary: How to write a quick and dirty Wordpress widget to add social network links to your template.
FLIRt – A Wordpress plugin
October 22, 2008 10:20 pm Comments (1)The inevitable disclaimer:
This WordPress plugin was thrown together in a fit of boredom by someone who is only vaguely aware of how the API is supposed to work, and whose last real contact with PHP development was, oh, so many years ago. If you want a proper FLIR plugin for WordPress, 23systems have the real thing in the WordPress Plugins directory. The one described here is for the few, the chosen, the band of brothers (and sisters) who want a daft excuse for a plugin to take apart.
A couple of days ago, She Who Does Web was telling me about various ways of making a web page look a bit less crap, and the difficulty of making things stand out better when the only things at your disposal are about three fonts and a bit of chewing gum. sIFR was mentioned briefly, but being a grumpy old hack, I can’t make myself plonk a Flash movie into a page for the sole purpose of displaying some pretty fonts. I said so, and then I was told of FLIR. No, I am not making these acronyms up. Read the full post
