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.eduGuru: Organizing a Higher-Ed Online Media Stream

Mar 30, 2010 Misc

I’m very happy to see my post “Organizing a Higher-Ed Online Media Stream” on .eduGuru. Thank you to Kyle James for letting me guest write for one of the best .edu blogs on the internet!

A Better PHP Upload and Rename Script

Mar 15, 2010 PHP

An earlier post of mine provides a fairly good example of a PHP script that renames a file as you upload it to a server. In this post, I’ve decided to take another look at that type of script and make it easier to use. I’m going to break the code you’ll need into two parts: the HTML and the PHP.

Parse Google Calendar XML with Actionscript 3.0 the Right Way

Feb 25, 2010 Misc

If you ever sit down to try and parse Google calendar XML data in Actionscript (specifically AS3), you’ll find that there is a lot of misinformation on the web, including many poor, broken examples of code. I’d like to try and demystify some of the problems behind parsing Google calendar XML by showing how it is done the right way.

Back to Basics

Feb 2, 2010 Misc

I’m restructuring my blog to only focus on these languages and environments: Apache, PHP, MySQL, Javascript (usually via jQuery), XML, Actionscript, CSS, and HTML. Very rarely have I had to extend my reach out into other languages to accomplish the creation of a quality web page or web application.

Build a Basic Authorize.net Payment Form

Dec 19, 2009 PHP

Getting a payment form that works can be tricky. But once you figure it out, you have the form as a reference forever. I’d like to show you how to build a basic Authorize.net payment form using HTML and PHP. Luckily, Authorize.net does a very good job providing documentation to web developers, making this form creation process very easy.