Author Archives: daniele

I would talk about a pattern whose name I fail to know before, giving it the name of multi-singleton. Registry pattern I read about it in PHP 5 certification study guide from php|architect’s series. This is the example given: class Registry { private static $_register; public static function add(&$item, $name = null) { if (is_object($item) […]

I found this and thought it was my bug .. but .. When I get IEASToken in getUser ebay api request it returns a token with == a the end. It is a base64 encoded string, and have ‘=’ sign at end as expected. But when eBay send notification, there are ‘**’ in place of […]

For sparing time, you end up wasting all time. A colleague, when first time talked my about XP (more than 10 years ago), said something like “It’s wonderfull. You are much quicker. You know it? Beautifull: you write tests, and then …”, and me “tests?!?”, “yes, then the system continue to work along time .. […]

Google webmaster tool signals scanning errors. The is option to signal error a scorrected, but sometime a lot of error is solved at once, but interface do not give option to select it all. Also this trick could be usefull in other service.. I loaded this code in chrome console (developer tool), modified from example […]

Well, I found this hack in http://coollogo.net/cool_logo_70/ a good resource for social icon. Given you want to show image.jpg, just put a transparent image in a div tag with the background-image: url(‘image.jpg’) this way: Ok, then you can use jQuery Context Menu to show your context menu, anyway, even if javascript is disabled the standard […]

This is my experience: I have to rewrite administration page where there is remove button (in a form) with only javascript confirm. I thought: “no one had problem with no limitation in the past, why they should now? I’ll use a link with javascript confirm. It happened I have a dashboard page where is listed […]

I found this very annoying, it seem chrome optimization make it not works things like “login via facebook” or “login via twitter” button with this browser and make it wait forever. I implemented oauth support for http://www.cellularmagazine.it/recensioni/inserisci.php and had a similar problem: Expires setted to access plus 10 minute (via .htaccess , this happen to […]

Filter is in php by default from 5.2.0 and is a usefull library for web developer, so it is the time to make use of it. It was created for validation and sanitization of foreign input, that is GET, POST, COOKIE, or anything that you can’t trust on. With php filter one can tests if […]

Install Download from http://code.google.com/p/wwwsqldesigner/ Very easy installation: you need a webserver running, unpack wwwsqldesigner it in a folder, setup your virtual host (I use personal domain for my pc), all done! Use There is a small tool bar to the right, very simple and intuitive to use, it is grouped in 4 areas: Save/load Table […]