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> <channel><title>Tinsology</title> <atom:link href="http://tinsology.net/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://tinsology.net</link> <description>Searching for the Right Questions</description> <lastBuildDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:57:44 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2</generator> <item><title>Start Services Using a Batch File</title><link>http://tinsology.net/2012/01/start-services-using-a-batch-file/</link> <comments>http://tinsology.net/2012/01/start-services-using-a-batch-file/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:57:05 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Tinsley</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Software]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Website/Server Administration]]></category> <category><![CDATA[batch]]></category> <category><![CDATA[services]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Windows]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://tinsology.net/?p=1842</guid> <description><![CDATA[If you use your person computer as a testing server you probably have several services running in the background (a web server, database, caching service, etc). Individually these services tend to have a small footprint. If you&#8217;re running enough of &#8230; <a
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isPermaLink="false">http://tinsology.net/?p=1786</guid> <description><![CDATA[Back when WordPress was only 2.7 versions old I published a plugin called WP SimpleMail. It was a rudimentary email client built into the WordPress admin interface. It had a lot of shortcomings &#8211; no support for mailboxes other than &#8230; <a
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isPermaLink="false">http://tinsology.net/?p=1737</guid> <description><![CDATA[The alpha release of PHP5.4 came out about a month ago. Along with the release came an announcement containing several of the more important changes, but not much in the way of detail. Here is a quick explanation of the &#8230; <a
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isPermaLink="false">http://tinsology.net/?p=1720</guid> <description><![CDATA[This function can be used to retrieve the host name for a particular IP address. For example, if you give it the IP address 74.207.242.169 it will output tinsology.net. Just off of the top of my head, one potential use &#8230; <a
href="http://tinsology.net/2011/08/weekly-function-gethostbyaddr/">Continue reading <span
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isPermaLink="false">http://tinsology.net/?p=1722</guid> <description><![CDATA[&#8230;unless you want to waste countless potentially productive hours. I should have known from playing Civ II and III that it&#8217;s not a game, it&#8217;s an addiction. For anyone not aware, Civilization is the monopoly of computer games. Starting a &#8230; <a
href="http://tinsology.net/2011/07/dont-buy-civilization-v/">Continue reading <span
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isPermaLink="false">http://tinsology.net/?p=1698</guid> <description><![CDATA[I had actually never heard of this function before my random function grabber spit it out, or for that matter any of the ctype functions. What this function does is takes a value and determines if it consists entirely of &#8230; <a
href="http://tinsology.net/2011/07/weekly-function-ctype_digit/">Continue reading <span
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isPermaLink="false">http://tinsology.net/?p=1694</guid> <description><![CDATA[Starting this week I&#8217;m going to be writing a post about a particular PHP function. Each week a function will be chosen at random from php.net&#8217;s Function List and I&#8217;ll write about (including but not limited to) basic usage, interest &#8230; <a
href="http://tinsology.net/2011/07/weekly-php-function/">Continue reading <span
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isPermaLink="false">http://tinsology.net/?p=1692</guid> <description><![CDATA[I finally got around to creating a custom theme to replace the old off the shelf one. It&#8217;s a modification of the default twentyeleven theme. Feel free to post any comments, criticisms or bug reports.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://tinsology.net/2011/07/new-theme/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>PHP Donts</title><link>http://tinsology.net/2011/07/php-donts/</link> <comments>http://tinsology.net/2011/07/php-donts/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 03 Jul 2011 09:56:09 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Tinsley</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[My Thoughts and Rants]]></category> <category><![CDATA[PHP]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://tinsology.net/?p=1645</guid> <description><![CDATA[The following is a non-comprehensive list (in no particular order) of things I often see people doing while using PHP that they probably shouldn&#8217;t. The purpose of this list is to inform; hopefully it will shed some light on what &#8230; <a
href="http://tinsology.net/2011/07/php-donts/">Continue reading <span
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isPermaLink="false">http://tinsology.net/?p=1650</guid> <description><![CDATA[In the aftermath of Amazon&#8217;s decision to drop California residents from their affiliate program I found some interesting discussion on the Associates board. Basically the poster is asking if anyone knows of any charities that California residents can swap their &#8230; <a
href="http://tinsology.net/2011/07/amazon-should-step-up/">Continue reading <span
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isPermaLink="false">http://tinsology.net/?p=1527</guid> <description><![CDATA[Version 1.4 of Amazon Tools has been released. You can download the free version from wordpress.org or get the premium version Here. This version includes more changes and additions than any update so far. Here are some of the highlights: &#8230; <a
href="http://tinsology.net/2011/06/amazon-tools-1-4/">Continue reading <span
class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://tinsology.net/2011/06/amazon-tools-1-4/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Google is translating my code!</title><link>http://tinsology.net/2011/04/google-is-translating-my-code/</link> <comments>http://tinsology.net/2011/04/google-is-translating-my-code/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2011 01:55:26 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Tinsley</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Programming]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Software]]></category> <category><![CDATA[google]]></category> <category><![CDATA[translate]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://tinsology.net/?p=1493</guid> <description><![CDATA[Recently I added the &#8216;Google Translate&#8217; widget to my sidebar. After some testing I noticed something problematic: All of the code snippets in my posts were also being translated. Unfortunately the PHP interpreter does not speak Spanish (it&#8217;s not that &#8230; <a
href="http://tinsology.net/2011/04/google-is-translating-my-code/">Continue reading <span
class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://tinsology.net/2011/04/google-is-translating-my-code/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>PHP json_encode and json_decode Alternatives</title><link>http://tinsology.net/2011/04/php-json_encode-and-json_decode-alternatives/</link> <comments>http://tinsology.net/2011/04/php-json_encode-and-json_decode-alternatives/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2011 14:38:00 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Tinsley</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[PHP]]></category> <category><![CDATA[json]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://tinsology.net/?p=1475</guid> <description><![CDATA[The number of APIs and other remote services that either support or require json as a means for transferring data is growing. However, PHP does not have guaranteed support for json encoding or decoding functions until version 5.2, which means if you want your application to be as portable as possible you'll need to find an alternative. The following functions should provide that. Note that I haven't exhaustively tested either of these functions and they may not completely replicate all of the functionality of their built in counterparts, but they should be sufficient for basic usage: <a
href="http://tinsology.net/2011/04/php-json_encode-and-json_decode-alternatives/">Continue reading <span
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isPermaLink="false">http://tinsology.net/?p=1370</guid> <description><![CDATA[I just released a new plugin called Amazon Tools. You can download it now from the <a
href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/amazon-tools/">wordpress plugin repository</a>.
Documentation can be found <a
href="http://tinsology.net/plugins/amazon-tools/">here</a>.
I also setup a <a
href="http://forums.tinsology.net/index.php">new forum</a> where I will post plugin information and tutorials.
Right now all I'm using the plugin for is generating the ad unit in the sidebar, but more is coming soon <a
href="http://tinsology.net/2011/04/amazon-tools-plugin/">Continue reading <span
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isPermaLink="false">http://tinsology.net/?p=1349</guid> <description><![CDATA[Recently I've been working with a non-relational, graph DBMS called <a
href="http://neo4j.org/">Neo4j</a>. I've really only scratched the surface and it might just be a the temporary euphoria of working with something so new, but it feels liberating to be able to approach problems in a new way. It might also be that for the first time in a long time I'm working in Java. At this point I've written far <a
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