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><channel><title>Steve&#039;s Ramblings &#187; Steve</title> <atom:link href="http://www.stevenmcmillan.co.uk/blog/author/admin/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://www.stevenmcmillan.co.uk/blog</link> <description>Web Developer &#38; Designer</description> <lastBuildDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:17:35 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1</generator> <item><title>PHP &#8211; Useful TinyMVC View Helpers</title><link>http://www.stevenmcmillan.co.uk/blog/2012/php-useful-tinymvc-view-helpers/</link> <comments>http://www.stevenmcmillan.co.uk/blog/2012/php-useful-tinymvc-view-helpers/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:17:35 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[PHP]]></category> <category><![CDATA[PHP frameworks]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Helpers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[MVC]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Scripts]]></category> <category><![CDATA[TinyMVC]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.stevenmcmillan.co.uk/blog/?p=793</guid> <description><![CDATA[Back again with more TinyMVC code. As I get more into this framework the more code I&#8217;ll be posting up, the functions in the code below are to be used directly from TinyMVC views and not controllers or models. One &#8230; <a
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.stevenmcmillan.co.uk/blog/?p=786</guid> <description><![CDATA[TinyMVC provides a great structure for developing new projects, it&#8217;s small base allows the developer to write new plug-ins and extend on the existing framework. Below you&#8217;ll find a template wrapper I have made to manage the views and assigning &#8230; <a
href="http://www.stevenmcmillan.co.uk/blog/2012/php-tinymvc-template-wrapper-plugin/">Continue reading <span
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.stevenmcmillan.co.uk/blog/?p=776</guid> <description><![CDATA[Below is a small tutorial showing you how to create a new Android Activity and Switch to it whenever needed as well as passing information between them, basically, this will allow you to switch to a new interface such as &#8230; <a
href="http://www.stevenmcmillan.co.uk/blog/2012/java-creating-and-switching-to-a-new-activity-in-android/">Continue reading <span
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.stevenmcmillan.co.uk/blog/?p=763</guid> <description><![CDATA[One of the most used features on the Android platform is being able to save and fetch your data from some sort of database, Android comes packaged with libraries to manage SQLite Databases. I have written a helper class to &#8230; <a
href="http://www.stevenmcmillan.co.uk/blog/2012/java-sqlite-database-helper-class-for-android/">Continue reading <span
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.stevenmcmillan.co.uk/blog/?p=750</guid> <description><![CDATA[After playing around with Android (and I&#8217;ve spent only around 2 hours so far) I found out that it&#8217;s quite easy to access the System Notifications and send messages from your own Activity along with the custom titles, content and &#8230; <a
href="http://www.stevenmcmillan.co.uk/blog/2011/java-using-androids-system-notifications/">Continue reading <span
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.stevenmcmillan.co.uk/blog/?p=740</guid> <description><![CDATA[One of the most useful things you can do in terms of performance is to cache the page you&#8217;re currently serving so that no code gets executed again and again when it isn&#8217;t needed. I&#8217;ve provided a sample below of &#8230; <a
href="http://www.stevenmcmillan.co.uk/blog/2011/php-page-basic-page-caching/">Continue reading <span
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.stevenmcmillan.co.uk/blog/?p=735</guid> <description><![CDATA[Below is a piece of code showing how to transform an Object into a Multidimensional Array, there are quite a few functions in PHP that return stdClass objects such as some MySQL, JSON or XML functions. If it is a &#8230; <a
href="http://www.stevenmcmillan.co.uk/blog/2011/php-object-to-multidimensional-array/">Continue reading <span
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.stevenmcmillan.co.uk/blog/?p=726</guid> <description><![CDATA[Below is an example class of a basic permission framework with permissions worked out by using bitwise operations. This provides basic functions such as hasAccess() can() and permNeeded() I won&#8217;t be going into detail regarding binary math and why it &#8230; <a
href="http://www.stevenmcmillan.co.uk/blog/2011/php-simple-permission-framework-with-bitwise-operations/">Continue reading <span
class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.stevenmcmillan.co.uk/blog/2011/php-simple-permission-framework-with-bitwise-operations/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>PHP Arrays with the CachingIterator (peeking ahead)</title><link>http://www.stevenmcmillan.co.uk/blog/2011/php-arrays-with-the-cachingiterator-peeking-ahead/</link> <comments>http://www.stevenmcmillan.co.uk/blog/2011/php-arrays-with-the-cachingiterator-peeking-ahead/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 13:43:22 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[PHP]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Arrays]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Foreach]]></category> <category><![CDATA[PHP. CachingIterator]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.stevenmcmillan.co.uk/blog/?p=718</guid> <description><![CDATA[One of the most useful things you may need when iterating through an array is to know whether or not there is another element after the current and in some cases you&#8217;ll want to know what the next element is. &#8230; <a
href="http://www.stevenmcmillan.co.uk/blog/2011/php-arrays-with-the-cachingiterator-peeking-ahead/">Continue reading <span
class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.stevenmcmillan.co.uk/blog/2011/php-arrays-with-the-cachingiterator-peeking-ahead/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>PHP Configurable CD-KEY Format Validation</title><link>http://www.stevenmcmillan.co.uk/blog/2011/php-configurable-cd-key-format-validation/</link> <comments>http://www.stevenmcmillan.co.uk/blog/2011/php-configurable-cd-key-format-validation/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 22:55:01 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[PHP]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Formatting Strings]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Valid CD-KEY]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Validation]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.stevenmcmillan.co.uk/blog/?p=706</guid> <description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve need this a few times, where I have to take input of a CD-KEY in a specific format and it needs to be checked to see if it&#8217;s in valid or not before proceeding. Normally &#8211; I would just &#8230; <a
href="http://www.stevenmcmillan.co.uk/blog/2011/php-configurable-cd-key-format-validation/">Continue reading <span
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