October 3, 2007 – 2:20 am
That’s right, over at Sitepoint, they’re giving away free electronic copies of the Ruby on Rails book “Build Your Own Ruby on Rails Web Applications” by Patrick Lenz. After entering your email address, you’ll receive an email containing the download link.
But that’s not all. Also included in the email is a $10 voucher for [...]
This code snippet which can be added to Textmate as a command will convert PHP object variable instances to associative array variables (and vice versa).
For example it will convert :
$thevar->somevar->anothervar
to :
$thevar[’somevar’][’anothervar’];
This comes in handy while developing in PHP environments where both variable forms are used and if you mistakenly used the wrong form.
Here’s the code [...]
If you’re interested in getting the latitude and longitude values for the location from Google Maps, check out the following handy tip from tech-recipes :
http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/2403/google_maps_get_latitude_longitude_values
One particular use for this is when you are working with the Google Maps API.
At Slashdot, Michael J. Ross wrote a book review of the recent Apress title Pro Drupal Development. This book written by John K. VanDyk and Matt Westgate is really recommended if you are into Drupal module development.
As an avid Drupal fan, I already bought the book the week it was released and found it very [...]
One thing I like about my Nintendo Wii is the fact that I can surf the web through it’s Internet Channel. Being a game console hooked up to a TV, one problem is that most web pages are harder to read and navigate through than on a PC. Luckily the Opera powered webbrowser does have [...]