Michael A Heap

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Custom Wordpress Taxonomies

I can’t think of any practical applications apart from the one given over at Web Developer Plus – but this is too cool not to share.
The basic example was that if you’re running a movie review blog, categories for genre and tags for actors/actresses may work, it would be nicer to have a taxonomy of [...]

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iTunes Library Parser

I found my old minidisc player the other day, and I can’t stop listening to it. The sound it produces is so much better than what I’m used to nowadays. I checked out my itunes library and as I expected, a lot of songs in there were at 128kbps. That’s bearable but I also discovered [...]

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PHP Short Tags

After reading that PHP6 might drop support for short tags, I decided to update my main Codeigniter project to use full php tags. I didn’t want to have to go through each file and update them by hand, so I set about automating it. I managed to do it using grep, awk and perl, and [...]

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Codeigniter Theme Library

I’m a huge fan of Codeigniter. Like a lot of developers, I used to think that if I didn’t write the code myself, it’s not worth me using it – Codeigniter changed that for me. Codeigniter’s got lots of strengths, but also quite a few weaknesses. In my opinion, its biggest weakness is the way [...]

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