A Life Without Compunction » Babblings

Merry Christmas

Dan — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 06:15:28 +0000

Hope you all are having a great Christmas, in the middle of your festivities take a moment to think of the children of the world who didn’t have the “turkey and fixings” this year.

If you need a great yet simple PHP REST …

Dan — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 22:26:13 +0000

If you need a great yet simple PHP REST Server class look no further than:

https://github.com/deepeshmalviya/simple-rest

Well made and dead simple to use.

Here’s a dandy function I banged out to …

Dan — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 23:59:21 +0000

Here’s a dandy function I banged out today for Drupal to reorder a tree taxonomy in alphabetical order.
function reordertaxonomy($tid) { $sql = 'SELECT term_data.tid, name, weight FROM term_data JOIN term_hierarchy ON term_hierarchy.tid = term_data.tid WHERE term_hierarchy.parent = ' . $tid; $result = db_query($sql); if ($result) { $neworder = array(); while ($row = db_fetch_object($result)) { $neworder[$row->name] = $row->tid; reordertaxonomy($row->tid); } ksort($neworder); print_r($neworder); $i = 0; foreach ($neworder as $termid) { $updatesql = 'UPDATE term_data SET weight = "' . $i . '" WHERE tid = "' . $termid . '"'; db_query($updatesql); $i++; } } }

Little Bitty Blossoms

Dan — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 21:42:02 +0000

If you have a moment stop by https://www.facebook.com/LittleBittyBlossoms and check out her awesome hair flowers for girls. If you like em, like her page and buy a few for you and your friends!

In Drupal when working with bread crumbs …

Dan — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 21:53:21 +0000

In Drupal when working with bread crumbs the Custom Breadcrumbs module blows Hansel out of the water. Less complicated and much more intuitive.

Putting this here so I remember it next …

Dan — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 17:47:00 +0000

Putting this here so I remember it next time I need it. On a FB Like button on your website to hide the “comments” box that pops up just add the following to your CSS:

.fb_edge_comment_widget { display: none !important; }

Just rolled out HTML5 Video for a client …

Dan — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 23:25:05 +0000

Just rolled out HTML5 Video for a client! Great success so far. The only thing I don’t like is it buffers longer than an FLV. Not as good a user experience, but I guess that’s what building for the future web is about

Pray for the children

Dan — Mon, 30 May 2011 06:20:10 +0000

Probably one of the best songs regarding the plight of children. It’s an original song written by my brother so I may be biased but give it a listen and if you like it … share it! You can see more about his endeavours with music at http://www.rainbowsafterrain.com

Starting a stress management course, rea …

Dan — Sat, 21 May 2011 16:21:57 +0000

Starting a stress management course, realized that there’s some really good tools and professionals out there who can actually help with this. Amazed that in my upbringing I never really got exposed to how many good tools there are out there. Stress can be at the core of so many issues. Learning to deal with stress is paramount to navigating life.

Got DD-WRT running on my LinkSys WRT-320 …

Dan — Fri, 20 May 2011 18:28:04 +0000

Got DD-WRT running on my LinkSys WRT-320N. Works like a charm!