Category Archives: development

RBST Website Launch

RBST Website Launch

For the past few months we’ve been working hard on a new website for the Rare Breeds Survival Trust, a national charity based right here in Warwickshire which aims to conserve the UK’s rare native breeds of animals. The new …

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Back to normal

Back to normal

If it is normal for you to seek out new opportunities and ways to make your business (or your career/life better), then “back to normal” may be actually quite exciting.

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Email migration strategy – plans & tips

Email migration strategy – plans & tips

Recently we moved our mail servers from where they’ve been hosted for a few years along with our website, to a shiny new cloud server, dedicated just for email (at the moment). Email is (still) the life-blood of 21st century …

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MySQL PHP data processing – which is faster?

MySQL PHP data processing – which is faster?

Many web developers aren’t aware that the MySQL database language supports a number of useful function for data processing that are commonly overlooked and replaced with post-processing in PHP. For a recent project I decided to see how much I could achieve using a single MySQL query and as little post-processing with PHP.

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Aptana 3 PHP Support

Aptana 3 PHP Support

Aptana dropped PHP support for V2 in favour for PDT, but now it seems they have done a u-turn and are going to re-introduce it for v3. What will the features be like and will you be using it?

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What’s the best PHP IDE?

What’s the best PHP IDE?

There are many an IDE on the market these days, some free and some not quite so free. So which is the best? Well having tried and tested quite a few, I have my personal favourite.

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Merge multiple PDF files in PHP using shell_exec() and Ghostscript

Merge multiple PDF files in PHP using shell_exec() and Ghostscript

A quick tip on how to merge multiple PDF files together using PHP.

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containing website widths

containing website widths

With wide screens becoming ever more popular, so does the importance of assigning a width to websites. If you’re thinking of having your website expand to fit the width of the user’s screen, you may want to think again.

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Page expired PHP problems

Page expired PHP problems

Page Expired messages generated by browsers after a form submission is a very annoying yet common problem facing all PHP developers. A simple solution is to use the header() function once the form has been submitted.

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