The Hind Leg

In 10 years time, Flash will be a forgotten technology

Cameron — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:28:20 +0800

Well, with any sort of luck at least. The reason for Flash's timely demise is this: http://processingjs.org/

Processing, and the Javascript implementation of it above, is an open source programming language that allows developers to programmatically build animations, images and interactive elements. The Javascript implementation uses the new HTML5 canvas element to allow users to build virtually whatever graphical interface they can imagine.

Google says update your browser... so do we.

jeremy — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:51:02 +0800

Google has said that it will cease support for old browsers such as Internet Explorer 6 this month. This is a great move on their behalf and they boys at DogHouse central are over the moon with this news.

And if that isn't enough then here are a few more reasons to upgrade your browser

Image thumbnail view helper for Zend Framework

Cameron — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 15:24:56 +0800

I've just released a generic view helper for Zend Framework that generates thumbnails using PHP's internal image resizing functionality. It is based upon the code developed by S. Mohammed Alsharaf at http://www.zfsnippets.com/snippets/view/id/44. It's basically zero config, I've made it smart enough to be able to automatically thumbnail basically any image passed to it without worrying too much about paths and the like, and it should be straightforward to work in a lightbox as well.

How to geocode an address using Google and php

jeremy — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 16:52:03 +0800

Google has some amazing services, one of my favourites would have to be the ability to geocode an address and get not only the lat/long but a clean, well formatted address back.

How you say... Easy!

Get yourself an api key from here: http://code.google.com/apis/maps/signup.html

use the following php code:

Suppressing errors with PHP's @ operator

Cameron — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:18:13 +0800

Don't do it.

I know this has been covered in various places around the Interwebs, but I'd like to add my voice to the chorus - every time you use @ to suppress a warning or error you can't be bothered dealing with, a puppy dies. There is essentially no good reason to use it, and if it ends up suppressing an unforseen yet important error, you're going to have a nightmare of a time trying to track it down.