Archive for the “PHP” category
Installing Memcached for MAMP PRO 1.9 running php 5.3.2 on OSX
by leon on June 30, 2011
After a few tedious hours of trying to install memcached for Mamp on my 10.6.8 based Mac, I finally found a solution. This has been sourced from a number of places and I hold no warrant for it working for (…)
Sendgrid and CodeIgniter
by leon on May 29, 2011
I’ve recently been working on a new project that focuses around the sending of email for marketing purposes – not a newsletter project, but something a bit more advanced. Without going into too much detail, the system allows users to (…)
HydraHack
by leon on March 13, 2011
Just a quick blog post to promote HydraHack, organised by Tom Martin (also of @383project fame). HydraHack is a monthly meetup for web developers in Birmingham, who enjoy getting together and making things. If you’re Birmingham based, you should pop along, (…)
Hello World
by leon on March 13, 2011
I’ve decided to move things around a bit with regards to the name of the blog, and the hosting solution (more on that in a later post). After all this blog is all about me, and the code that I (…)
Beanstalk Command Line Interface
by leon on February 12, 2011
It’s fair to say that we love a bit of Beanstalk (affiliate link, gets you 10% off) at @383project. I’ve built tools to help you integrate with Geckoboard, display Growl notifications of your commits and a webapp for deploying and checking (…)
CloudControl vs phpFog
by leon on January 15, 2011
When I first saw phpFog announced a while back I was pretty excited – a fully managed and scalable cloud hosting solution built from the ground up for php. Whilst waiting for a beta invite, I came across CloudControl – (…)
Beanstalk Growl Notifications
by leon on November 10, 2010
In this post, i’ll talk about how I managed to get updates from Beanstalk to my desktop, and why this was important. My previous post has been about mashing 3rd party apps together in order to streamline and improve how (…)
Geckoboard and ServerDensity Take 2
by leon on November 9, 2010
So, last week I wrote a post about how we were using Geckoboard to monitor the launch of a set of sites – after a successful launch I can now reveal that those sites were for the Orion Media Group (…)
CodeIgniter PayPal API Library
by leon on March 22, 2010
Recently I have been involved in a number of projects using PayPal as a payment gateway. The implementations ranged from the basic buy now buttons, to full blown use of the API to create a recurring based platform for a (…)
Another Last.fm/Spotify mashup
by leon on March 1, 2009
A month or so ago I hacked the last.fm for wordpress plugin to allow for integration with Spotify. The basic idea was that the plugin would pull in your recently played tracks and then allow users to open those tracks (…)