In the Linux environment, I have always found the shell dig command really useful as a way of getting a little more domain info than is returned by using a simple ping. If you happen to be using Windows, Resolve-DnsName…
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In the Linux environment, I have always found the shell dig command really useful as a way of getting a little more domain info than is returned by using a simple ping. If you happen to be using Windows, Resolve-DnsName…
I’ve been using Redgate SQL Source Control on an install of SQL Server Management Studio 2014 for a while now. It works well and integrates with our version control setup to give us a bit of reassurance when developing. I…
Last week I managed to move both of my WordPress blogs onto Linode with just a a few easily solved issues with permissions and file ownership. One hurdle I did get stuck at however was WordPress being unable to create…
A PHP Mini project designed to process, produce and store random PIN Numbers.
Here’s a little problem I faced the other day. Filtering rows against a timescale based on three dates that may or may not exist. This way round the problem uses the IFNULL, GREATEST and LEAST MySQL functions. IFNULL has to…
Front end frameworks have been around for a while now and a quick search will return a myriad of different examples, all of which seem to offer very similar advantages to both developer and end user. I played around with…
I stumbled across this neat way of updating a MySQL database table from an array. This is part of the Google AdWords API Project I’m working on at the moment. I needed to update a MySQL table with x amount…
So I’m trying to put together a little app/program using the Google Adwords API. The idea is that some of the work associated with managing keywords within Ad Groups can be automated, freeing up valuable marketing time to be spent…
I’ve updated www.alancoleman.com, my personal blog and webspace, with a new WordPress theme. I’m calling it Charcoal and Vanilla. The theme is based on the WordPress default Twenty Eleven theme. I’ve always found this a good place to start when…
This is something I’ve been meaning to do for a while now. Resurrecting an old PHP CMS Project that I built back in 2006. I had great fun building this initially so thought it would be a good little project to breath…