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Mandatory reading for PHP devs

I just wanted to give this site I stumbled upon some credit: http://www.hackingwithphp.com/. I've been developing with PHP for about 15 years, but still the part about performance taught me quite a lot.…

Working around the IE9/IE8 XDR Post bug

When creating a REST-API for a client we ran across this really weird problem. IE8/IE9 can't make XMLHttpRequest to other domains via CORS. Microsoft invented their own solution for this…

Preventing overlapping cron jobs

From time to time, we're asked to fix broken sites built by other agencies. This can be extremely tricky, but if it's technologies we know and love (PHP, MySQL, Apache,…

Line-out scrobbler

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCZjd9508V0 for years i've been trying to hijack music recognition services like shahzam to be able to recognize music. i've finally got this working thanks to the fine guys at…

NOW On Roskilde

Now On Roskilde is a mobile application which users easily can add to their homescreen. It shows what's on right now, together with related artists playing in the near future.…

CodeIgniter development site – on live environment

We recently had to set up a development site for an existing CodeIgniter site, and we wanted to do this effortless. Ideal would obviously be to have a separate virtual…

html5 validation with(!) facebook opengraph

html5 is that new, cool(?) technology which you should(?) be using when making new sites. but, being the thorough developer you are - it just eats you up from the…

php class for ffmpeg

i've had a few projects over the last years where i've needed to convert some video file to flv, generate a thumbnail and get the video's duration. i've never really…