29th Sep 2015 • David Carr Unheap - A tidy repository of jQuery plugins Today I came across unheap.com a fantastic site featuring 980 jQuery plugins (at the time of writing... Read more
29th Sep 2015 • David Carr Otto the successor to Vagrant (portable development environments) HashiCorp the company behind the hugely successful portable development environments software Vagran... Read more
27th Aug 2015 • David Carr Leverage PHP to decrease page load times Increase your page speed by merging your various css and js files into a single css and js file..... Read more
22nd Aug 2015 • David Carr Duplicate form sections with jQuery When working with forms it can be incredibly useful to duplicate parts of the form, for instance whe... Read more
22nd Aug 2015 • David Carr Language tends on Github for 2015 Github has posted an article on the popularity tends for languages on Github since 2008. Read more
22nd Aug 2015 • David Carr Sending emails with PHPMailer and Mandrill Sending emails with PHP’s mail function is not recommended it’s not reliable and hard to... Read more
22nd Aug 2015 • David Carr Useful Google Chrome Tips Google Chrome has lots of hidden options, the following tips are some of my favourites. Read more
18th Jul 2015 • David Carr Create a list of items from a folder using scandir Quick tip to create a list page that will read the files from a directory and link to them is super... Read more
18th Jul 2015 • David Carr Book Review: Building Secure PHP Apps I’ve just finished reading Building Secure PHP Apps by Ben Edmunds. A securi... Read more
18th Jul 2015 • David Carr Reading markdown files with parsedown Read me files on GitHub are written in Markdown, I wanted to be able to grab the contents of a... Read more
17th Jul 2015 • David Carr Scraping GitHub For an upcoming project I need to be able to dynamically get information about a GitHub repository s... Read more
17th Jul 2015 • David Carr comparing multiple values against in_array PHP's in_array is useful to determine if an item is in an array but when needing to compare... Read more
12th Jul 2015 • David Carr Using Premailer to convert styles to inline styles for HTML emails automatically with PHP Sending HTML emails can be tricky, not all mail clients support the same css. Most ignore external s... Read more
11th Jul 2015 • David Carr PHP 7 Beta released PHP recently announced the released: PHP 7.0.0 Beta 1, PHP 5.5.27 & PHP 5.6... Read more
9th Jul 2015 • David Carr Code Club kids earn their first term certificate Today I’ve been to a very special Code Club assembly, to present a certificate to my class for... Read more
