December 2006
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Geographic Calculations in PHP
Recently I have been involved with a project that maps yachts during an ocean race, which got me thinking about basic calculations and conversions that would be useful to fellow developers. I envisage this being useful in projects leveraging Google or Yahoo maps. For the moment the class performs the following functions:
Calculate the distance between two coordinate points on the earth’s...
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Wow, Almost Six Months
I did not realise it but it has been almost 6 months since the last update to this website. So I guess I have been busier than I thought of late! Anyway I created a new design for the site and added some features which I felt were lacking.
I had planned to write my own blogging engine, but when I tried the upgrade to Textpattern 4.0.4 I realised that most of the things that annoyed me about...
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Secondary DNS for Free
I recently had a server go offline, taking with it the DNS for my main email domain. I had long suspected this would be a major potential problem in the setup. When the server went down the DNS settings where not backed up by the hosting company so all of a sudden people emailing me started to encounter bounce backs and I could not work out why. Then it dawned on me that when the server died...