http://www.melbournechapter.net/wordpress web application development with popular technologies Fri, 18 Apr 2008 03:18:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Ever wanted to have your own stylised numbers in an ordered list? Well using CSS alone this is impossible - as far as i know - but with the help of PHP and list-style-image we can indeed use our own stylised numbers. Anyway here's how I do it: < ... http://www.melbournechapter.net/wordpress/web-accessibility/rich/2008/04/08/taming-ordered-lists/ Whilst on google today I stumbled across Google GDay "predict content one day in advance" (http://www.google.com.au/intl/en/gday/index.html)  funny i thought  imagine how handy that would be for footy tipping or picking lotto numbers lol. Anyway for those of you haven't figured it out already, yes its an April fools joke ... http://www.melbournechapter.net/wordpress/offtopic/rich/2008/04/01/google-gday/ Interesting issue today whilst I was migrating some websites to a new host. Even after updating the DNS records with our domain name registrar we were still viewing old content, after much head scratching and blaming the internet connection we concluded there was some sort of caching going on. Didn't ... http://www.melbournechapter.net/wordpress/system-administration/rich/2008/03/03/dns-caching/ Ever had to do some legacy hacking or changing of $_SERVER vars for different OS and wish you didn't have to ruin your beautiful application? Well maybe auto_prepend_file is the answer! This is a little known core php directive, which when used  in a HTACCESS can let specify a php ... http://www.melbournechapter.net/wordpress/programming-languages/php/rich/2008/02/22/auto_prepend_file-parse-php-before-the-requested-php-loads/ How often do you visit websites with script errors? Frequently my Firebug Firefox Add-On lights up with "undefined" errors when I visit JavaScript intensive websites. Sure it doesn't affect the functionality of the site (usually) but it's just plain bad form, specially when it's so easily avoided. Where you place ... http://www.melbournechapter.net/wordpress/programming-languages/javascript/rich/2008/02/12/placing-javascript-correctly/ Cameron Manderson is working for Flint Interactive, a young, independent, Melbourne-based interactive collective, offering fresh and innovative end-to-end web services. Draw together by a common vision to create awesome, inspiring and progressive online projects, their work and the way they go about it reflects their passion. more... http://www.melbournechapter.net/wordpress/offtopic/cman/2008/02/07/flint-interactive/ I downloaded Firefox 3 beta 2 today. Give it a whirl i thought. But of course my beloved Web Developer and View Source Chart extensions were disabled because of incompatibility. I was almost about to revert back to 2, but being the stubborn person I am sometimes, I didn't ... http://www.melbournechapter.net/wordpress/firefox/rich/2008/02/07/making-firefox-200-extensions-work-in-firefox-302/ Earlier this month the PHP dev team released 4.4.8 a security/ stability patch, supposedly the last patch of the 4 branch*. I was pretty surprised, as to my knowledge official support of version 4 had finished as of 2007. I've always commended the PHP dev team on their ongoing support ... http://www.melbournechapter.net/wordpress/programming-languages/php/rich/2008/02/04/php-4-still-kickin/ Often when writing URL's we put little thought into whether we add a trailing slash or not, especially these days with SEO where more concerned about the actual readability of the URL. The fact is webservers differentiate a request for a file and directory through the slash. When an incoming ... http://www.melbournechapter.net/wordpress/seo/rich/2008/01/17/the-facts-about-trailing-slashes-in-urls/ Hi All, Some time ago I posted an article on what it would involve to share a session across different domains. I have since then had a lot of interest in having a look at a means of implementing the solution. It has been quite some time since I looked at ... http://www.melbournechapter.net/wordpress/offtopic/cman/2007/12/13/php-sharing-sessions-between-multiple-domains/