My new favourite song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcoKxYv8NCQ 2010-03-11T17:00:11Z 33305 false false 5911 5911 User joshsalverda http://s3.amazonaws.com/blellow/media_files/12609/josh_profile.jpg %PHP One more PHP question on my mind: Is extending a class considered bad practice? Let's say you have a user class and a database class... normally I would do "class User extends Database"... but would it be better to just have the user class separate? then whenever you need access to the database 2010-02-25T17:10:40Z 33098 false false 5911 21 Group joshsalverda http://s3.amazonaws.com/blellow/media_files/12609/josh_profile.jpg %PHP So I have a user class setup and I started re-writing it last night to be more encapsulated. One idea I had was to assign the global session array to a private member so that I could have more control over registering and retrieving session vars through the class itself. But in order for this 2010-02-25T17:07:16Z 33095 false false 5911 21 Group joshsalverda http://s3.amazonaws.com/blellow/media_files/12609/josh_profile.jpg Launched Can I Swing It Beta a few days ago. Wondering if anyone wants to test it out and see what they think and offer some suggestions. The design of the site is currently under review and will be updated soon... would be grateful if you post any bugs you run into: http://www.caniswingit.com/beta/ 2010-02-25T20:43:10Z 33115 false false 5911 5911 User joshsalverda http://s3.amazonaws.com/blellow/media_files/12609/josh_profile.jpg %PHP Using PHP to send mass emails - what's the best way to handle this? Obviously looping using mail() is out as it's way too taxing... but would it be better to do emails in groups (10 - 20 (or more?) at a time?) or use bcc to send to everyone in one go? Is bcc taxing on the mail server? 2010-02-19T01:26:06Z 32982 false false 5911 21 Group joshsalverda http://s3.amazonaws.com/blellow/media_files/12609/josh_profile.jpg %javascript I'm now contributing to Zaria http://code.google.com/p/zaria/ a rich text editor that my co-worker developed. It's built to stay under 10KB and work in all major browsers. I re-wrote some of the JS to get it down to 7.4KB (used to be 8.5). Let me know what you think :) 2010-02-20T20:26:50Z 33021 false false 5911 23 Group joshsalverda http://s3.amazonaws.com/blellow/media_files/12609/josh_profile.jpg Has anyone ever heard of a virtual sms server/gateway? 2010-02-12T04:50:08Z 32864 true false 5911 5911 User joshsalverda http://s3.amazonaws.com/blellow/media_files/12609/josh_profile.jpg All, my co-worker/boss is leaving as senior front-end web developer at FutureBrand in Toronto. So if you live in Toronto and need a job check this out: http://jobview.monster.ca/GetJob.aspx?JobID=86221792&aid=80048346&WT.mc_n=JSAHG10 2010-02-11T07:44:08Z 32845 false false 5911 5911 User joshsalverda http://s3.amazonaws.com/blellow/media_files/12609/josh_profile.jpg %PHP Has anyone ever done a session timeout error message? For example: a user gets up and leaves their computer logged in, then when they come back and try to go to a page they get sent to the login screen with a "your session timed out" message... I tried to do this before but I was unsuccessful 2010-02-07T00:11:46Z 32759 false false 5911 21 Group joshsalverda http://s3.amazonaws.com/blellow/media_files/12609/josh_profile.jpg Working on a project and our designer has come up with a few designs... wondering if I could get some opinions: http://www.conceptfeedback.com/concept/2344/website-for-easy-budgeting/ Also I have attached my idea for the design (much lighter bg and lighter footer) to this post 2010-02-06T00:29:21Z 32743 true false 5911 5911 User joshsalverda http://s3.amazonaws.com/blellow/media_files/12609/josh_profile.jpg I think someone cracked my WEP key and used over 100GB of bandwidth :( I have now changed the pass to use WPA2 and added their MAC address to the block list... sucks tho cause now I'm over my limit and have to pay extra fees... :( :( :( :( :( bastards... 2010-01-23T23:20:19Z 32322 false false 5911 5911 User joshsalverda http://s3.amazonaws.com/blellow/media_files/12609/josh_profile.jpg %wordpress Not sure if this is common knowledge but I found out a neat trick recently for dealing with custom page templates. You can just use the_post(); right after get_header(); instead of including the entire "Loop" code in your template. Example: http://pastie.org/781011 2010-01-16T19:06:47Z 32075 false false 5911 17 Group joshsalverda http://s3.amazonaws.com/blellow/media_files/12609/josh_profile.jpg You know it has been a long day of programming when you start writing sentences using semi-colons instead of periods :P 2010-01-10T23:33:31Z 31813 false false 5911 5911 User joshsalverda http://s3.amazonaws.com/blellow/media_files/12609/josh_profile.jpg %javascript A couple new JS functions I wrote... couldn't find a "get siblings" function online so I wrote it myself... if anyone can optimize them let me know :) http://pastie.org/770898 2010-01-07T23:29:14Z 31727 false false 5911 23 Group joshsalverda http://s3.amazonaws.com/blellow/media_files/12609/josh_profile.jpg Does anyone have a wordpress blog with lots of content that isn't really used anymore? I really need some sort of DB backup of someone's wordpress or a live testing site that has a huge amount of content so I can test my search plugin properly :) If you can help it would be much appreciated 2010-01-05T17:56:22Z 31654 false false 5911 5911 User joshsalverda http://s3.amazonaws.com/blellow/media_files/12609/josh_profile.jpg Just setup a trac system on my local machine... I tried to do it awhile ago and failed miserably... seems to be working now though :) 2010-01-02T18:45:10Z 31563 false false 5911 5911 User joshsalverda http://s3.amazonaws.com/blellow/media_files/12609/josh_profile.jpg Good song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9vwTm_AEeQ Elephant Woman by Blonde Redhead 2010-01-02T02:01:01Z 31549 false false 5911 5911 User joshsalverda http://s3.amazonaws.com/blellow/media_files/12609/josh_profile.jpg Just got back from a bunch of family visitations... hope everyone had a great Christmas :) 2009-12-28T04:30:05Z 31410 false false 5911 5911 User joshsalverda http://s3.amazonaws.com/blellow/media_files/12609/josh_profile.jpg I have glasses now for doing reading and computer work... not sure if I like them yet... definitely going to take some getting used to... 2009-12-23T02:53:06Z 31325 false false 5911 5911 User joshsalverda http://s3.amazonaws.com/blellow/media_files/12609/josh_profile.jpg Modifying the "search everything" wordpress plugin to actually search everything... 2009-12-17T22:59:18Z 31176 false false 5911 5911 User joshsalverda http://s3.amazonaws.com/blellow/media_files/12609/josh_profile.jpg