Posts Tagged ‘Web Development’

Start and connect to your VirtualBox VM with a simple script

The way I like to develop is to create specific virtual machines for my web development. The chore is to start the machine, mount the file system and then open up your IDE. All a nuisance that takes time. So, I’ve taken to writing a simple Bash script that will do the grunt work for [...]

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Taking care of HTML comments in PHP

A little problem came up with some user submitted content on a platform I’m working with. A form allows users to submit content with tinyMCE. If the content is pasted from MS Word, the source is then littered with HTML conditional comments that can have a detrimental effect on the the page that returns it. [...]

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CodeIgniter’s Form Helper doesn’t respect POST arrays

I’ve been working on my first ‘proper’ CodeIgniter project this week. It’s been quite gruelling, as there are some moments where I have definitely sped up my production. But it’s constantly getting hampered by the learning curve. It may be slight, but is frustrating when I hit a wall. One issue that just cam up [...]

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The Union is (almost) Online (again)

Well, Mo’s been beavering away and has almost finished the new forum over at the-company.com. Keep your eyes peeled! In the meantime there are considerations of webcrawlers and such to extract the content as ProBoards have said, quite simply, you can’t have the database with your content. Ho hum.

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