Archive for March, 2008

PHP For the Road: Part 1

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

I have decided to start a series on PHP Tips and Tricks, and I may even throw in a few other bits and bobs that I have come across. To start with, I'm going to be covering PHP shortcuts that every beginner should know (I didn't find these out until ...

MySQL Tables and Tribulations

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

Whilst working on a database query for part of my project, I had to join a few tables in a query. It was nothing out of the ordinary, however after some alterations and debugging later, I found out the query execution time took over 2 seconds! This was incredibly worrying, ...

My first foray into the world of blogging - Windows Live Writer

Friday, March 28th, 2008

I plan on sharing my experiences predominantly from a development point of view on a few projects I'm currently working on. I develop some medium-ish e-commerce sites using everyone's favourite PHP and MySQL combo. I hope to leave a few coding tips that I have picked up along the way ...