This is a quick post to announce the release of Bitcoin Helper 0.11. Bitcoin Helper 0.11 contains significantly better error handler than the initial release (0.1) and also makes the file-based caching of the JSON retrieved from bitcoincharts.com mandatory. Error Handling It can now handle internal issues with network communication to the data source and incorrect [...]

I’ve recently exchanged e-mails with a colleague regarding the storage of PHP sessions data in a MySQL database. To help anyone else interested in using database storage of PHP session information, I have paraphrased / rewritten the content of some of those e-mails below. One of the best ways to implement the database storage of PHP session [...]

I’ve posted about Contacular a while ago. Contacular is my solution to the problem of reinventing the wheel for PHP-powered contact forms on websites. It allows you to quick and easily create a fully functional, e-mailing, self-validating contact form that you can integrate with any website that is on PHP enabled server. If you’re interested [...]

This is just a quick post to announce the recent start of one of my recent open source projects, Contacular. I have been building up Contacular’s overall feature set over the past week, having made the initial release on the 25th of January 2010. I now believe it is worthy of a post here, based [...]

Google, who brought forward the specifics of the ‘do no evil’ ideology within consumer visible software, is refusing to host an open-source project due to slight, almost humorous, modifications to its license, denying ‘evil’ use of the licensed software. Douglas Crockford selected the MIT license for his JSMin program to reduce JavaScript code syntax in such a way to make it [...]