Category Archives: Code

MySQL Transactions

Posted on July 2, 2011 by Scott Allen

MySQL has the ability to handle what are known as transactions: a series of queries that must be executed in an all-or-none fashion. As a bonus, it’s super easy to use. Using PHP, you can do the following: mysql_query(“START TRANSACTION”); … Continue reading →

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Use PHP to get all images in a folder

Posted on May 31, 2011 by Scott Allen

This: $images = glob($directory . “*.{jpg,gif,png}”, GLOB_BRACE); is awesome.

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iOS Training: Day 2

Posted on February 23, 2011 by Scott Allen

This is going to be a short one. After spending a ton of time at a computer the last couple days, writing a blog post isn’t the thing I’m dying to do at the moment. [Ed: Nevermind. Got rolling and … Continue reading →

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iOS Training: Day 1

Posted on February 21, 2011 by Scott Allen

Today was the first real day of class. Over the course of about 12 hours working, I went through the first six chapters of the book we are supposed to make it all the way through this week. Today’s chapters … Continue reading →

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iOS Training: Day 0

Posted on February 20, 2011 by Scott Allen

I left home in Indianapolis at 1:30 this afternoon and hopped a flight to Atlanta. After that, I took a one hour ride to Historic Banning Mills, Georgia, home of the Big Nerd Ranch. I got checked into my cozy … Continue reading →

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Conflagration of IE6, PHP session_start, and blank pages

Posted on November 10, 2010 by Scott Allen

Yesterday, I was troubleshooting a problem that (only) showed up in IE6 where anytime I click a link that goes to a page with session_start() in it, I get a blank page with no errors and the address bar shows … Continue reading →

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Select the last n rows from a MySQL table

Posted on September 22, 2010 by Scott Allen

I needed to figure out how to select the last four rows of a database table without reversing the order of the rows. After a little digging, I got to this point: SELECT * FROM ( SELECT * FROM table_name … Continue reading →

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