Disgusted at the fact that Absoute Radio’s “Songs of the Decade” includes fifteen, yes, 15 songs by McFly, one of my good friends Daniel Bailey has created an alternative Top 100 songs of the Decade list. If you strongly disagree with any of these then leave a comment. I’ve also attached a link to download this playlist to iTunes
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December 11th, 2009 - 12:55 am § in General
The Alternative Top 100 Songs of the Decade
November 27th, 2009 - 2:14 pm § in Notes
Case of the missing/hidden IE8 Developer Tools window
Whilst working on a current project I was trying to get cross-browser compatability working nicely. However when I came to load up IE’s Developer Tools I found it was loading up the window but nothing was there! I’m running Windows 7 and this seems to be the only [...]
November 20th, 2009 - 12:37 am § in General
Email to SMS / Email to Mobile, Free Database
Heres another one of my general snippets in part of coding a new project. This database has been created solely using data from Wikipedia. I’ve edited the list, removed those which are either commercial, don’t provide actual email addresses or those that I can visibly see don’t wor[...]
November 3rd, 2009 - 3:53 pm § in General
MultiPart E-Mail Code for PHP (Text and HTML)
Whilst trawling through some of my ultra-old posts on various forums I’ve found this nifty little piece of code that enables you to send in both HTML and TEXT form. This is useful for clients that cant display HTML (they will display the text instead). I developed it back in 2007 so it may nee[...]
October 20th, 2009 - 5:59 pm § in Notes
[PHP] Get current time in milliseconds
I recently needed to get the current time in milliseconds, of course this can easily be retrieved using microtime() however I needed the entire number in digits, not in decimals with seconds seperately etc. Heres how: ?View Code PHP1 2 3 $timeparts = explode(" ",microtime()[...]
October 12th, 2009 - 3:42 pm § in Notes
Bash, Bad Interpreter
I recently came across: /bin/bash^M: bad interpreter: No such file or directory When trying to run a bash script that someone else had edited. This most commonly happens on UNIX systems if the file has been edited on MS-DOS or Mac. The cure for this is to run a simple perl script: ?View Code BASH#![...]
October 9th, 2009 - 2:18 pm § in General
New Project: vBulletin-Bridge
Whilst working on FetchMP3 I wanted to create a bridge between the forum membership system and that of the main site’s. So a lot of writing later the vbulletin bridge was born. It has many of the features any membership system would need such as: [...]