wade womersley – york based software engineer
So often you find yourself needing a list of countries for use in your software and I keep having to re-use this code so here is a list of countries with their ISO codes in a variety of formats you can simply just use. # C# Dictionary ISO { countrycode, countryname } list new Dictionary<string, … Read More “Country/Currency List for C#, JSON, PHP and HTML select” »
Amazon’s EC2 platform has a very in-depth console which allows you to do a lot, but what if you want to automate some of the processes or handling servers? I’ve been working with EC2 a lot recently and automating server starting/stopping based on parameters of the system we use here at MediaSkunkworks and thought I’d … Read More “Using Amazon EC2 with C# .net” »
Dotdeb.org have the PHP 5.4 series available for installation on Debian based OS’s, you can either do it manually or use my installation script I wrote to make the process easier. All you need to do is run: curl https://wade.one/blog/wp-content/uploads/php54.sh | sudo bash And it’ll do the rest for you! Feel free to just download … Read More “PHP5.4.3 Available on Dotdeb.org (Installs fine on Ubuntu)” »
Ondřej Surý has released apt-get’table packages for PHP 5.4 on Ubuntu. Instructions and installation are available from https://launchpad.net/~ondrej/+archive/php5 . Think I’ll keep custom building for now so I get total control but for the majority of people this is better than waiting until potentially October for it to hit the official channels.
Needed to use this recently to create a specificity parameter for an API at work, it gives you a key/value array from an ISO date string regardless of what is actually set in the string (e.g. if you give 2011-06-07 04 you’ll get an array back as array(‘year’=>2011, ‘month’ => 6, ‘day’ => 7, ‘hour’ … Read More “Regular Expression (Regex) For Date part extraction/array split” »