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WordPress on Mobile (iPhone an...

Posted by Burnsie on May 10th, 2010
WPTouch is a fantastic plugin for WordPress that allows your users to browse your WordPress Blog on iPhone and Android mobile phones. http://www.bravenewcode.com/products/wptouch/ If you want to customise the mobile theme, you can modify the PHP...

Rewrite/Customise WordPress Se...

Posted by Burnsie on May 10th, 2010
*This article assumes working knowledge of PHP and mySQL. Abstract WordPress search is rubbish. It basically just does a WHERE post_title LIKE %Your search string% which is inadequate 90% of the time. I spent ages wrestling with plugins like Search...

rake db:seed | Don’t kno...

Posted by Jamsi on Mar 23rd, 2010
So I ran into a little issue today, I wasn’t able to get my rake db:seed task to work. This is the error I was getting; rake db:seed don't know how to build task The solution? Update rails to 2.3.5 How? gem update rails

Ordinal Number in Reporting Se...

Posted by Jamsi on Mar 4th, 2010
Recently I had a client request for reporting services dates to use ordinal numbers, that being, “1st instead of 1, 2nd instead of 2″ etc. To my surprise, this isn’t a standard datetime format in reporting services! So I set out...
recent from category one 3 of the Best CSS Tutorials
So I used to be one of those old “tables are still cool for layouts” kinda guys and proceeded to use tables for just about anything web related that I touched. But there came a moment where I decided .. you know what, everyone else is raving on about this CSS layout business, so I set out...
recent from category four How to fetch Last Record in Subsonic
Is it just me or is Subsonic the topic of discussion right now? I had a need to retrieve the last ID that had been generated in a table; that being, the last “auto increment” ID of a table. The following example worked a charm using Subsonic and activerecord. var fetch_ref_id = contract.All().OrderByDescending(c...