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Shopping with convenience (for us developers, that is)

Sam — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 08:34:35 +0000

I don’t normally post my nerdy tid-bits here, but we did something totally cool today.
We built a pseudo-purchasing system (ie shopping / “add to cart”) revolving entirely around functionality in an ORM and PHP’s built in session handling.

The beauty of it all, is that once our logic validates the cart is ready and all processing is done, all that is required is calling $object->save();, and the ORM takes care of persisting it all.

I’m a little inspired with how easy this was, and how well it really worked (it seriously was awesome).. I’m going to put some thought into other ways that code libraries that I already use can be put to use with their “in the box” features, but in an “outside the box” kind of way.

joining the IE6 No More bandwagon

Sam — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 05:29:01 +0000

I know it’s been done before, but the IE6 No More movement seems to be getting a few big names in, so I thought I’d jump on board.

(and yes, I did have to install IE6 specifically to take this screenshot)

Project Natal screams awesome

Sam — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 07:38:06 +0000

Found this courtesy of the Department Of Internets, looks to be fairly awesome..

Thanks to some iBox trickery, this should pop up and be really cool

in need of a new domain

Sam — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 14:18:08 +0000

Wanting to do some self-marketing today, I’ve gone on a domain hunt. After registering a couple of joke domains, and transferring some of my other domains to a new provider, it doesn’t seem like I’ve really gotten anywhere. Who the hell would want to own my named domains? Check. these. out.
Stupid internet squatters. None of them seem to be in use at all. Blah! I’m stuck on ideas of what to register.

Hey cyberstalkers, any ideas?

another .au hoster rolls

Sam — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 08:08:43 +0000

Dear Sam Jay,

This email is to inform you that a number of Bottle Domains’ accounts
have recently been the target of a security breach. We do not believe
that your account has been affected, and have no indication of any
unauthorised access to your account, however as a precautionary
measure, we have taken the following steps to ensure your account
remains secure:

- Updated your account password
- Updated your domain name password at the registry

You will receive your new password details in a separate email shortly.
Whilst strict security is in place, we have taken further measures to
enhance and protect your security, including human verification of
important registry updates. We are working in conjunction with the
Australian Domain Administrator, relevant authorities, and independent
security experts to review and consider even further measures to
protect your important data. If you have any questions or concerns
about your security, please feel free to contact us at help@… or 1300 88 74 74.

Regards,

Andrew ~~lastname~~,
General Manager
Bottle Domains

Barack-roll, xenu 08!!

Sam — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:48:36 +0000

It’s a pity that this wasn’t fully done. It would have ended pretty well.

Anyway, got this from a site I closely follow for all my scientology info (PS if you’re seeing this, hi Mark!) and thought that it was funny.

Better than the barackroll is for certain the Xenu08 site. I know if I were American that he would be my preferred candidate. Well.. I was initially barracking (pun) for Hildog, obviously since she’s more alien, but with her out of the contest, definitely xenu.

Hrm, anyhow, it’s late (12.45) and I have work tomorrow. So that is all for now. Keep searching the skiis…er, skies.

WP2.6

Sam — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 22:37:11 +0000

I just updated. The Google Gears features look interesting. Was playing around with 2.6 last night over 3G internets and Dreamhost (aka the epitome of s-l-o-w) and pages were loading up really fast: Hooray.

Argh!

Sam — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 11:04:02 +0000

Seems when work did a batch of recent DNS updates, they put my site on the wrong IP addresses, and subsequently it was redirect looping. Uh-oh.

Fixed it for now, although I need to remember to fix it for good tomorrow (few more settings).

In other news, WordPress 2.6 is out and I need to update. I updated my test site I have stored locally and everything seems to have run normally. I’m loving the wiki-like revisions features, very very nice. I’m going to try updating tomorrow morning

moar red bull please

Sam — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 06:15:40 +0000

WP2.5

Sam — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 03:00:49 +0000

I just updated. It’s very interesting! More to come… I guess.