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CessnaConquest.net

June 24, 2010

I’ve just uploaded another website to CessnaConquest.net. It’s a web based ground reference for pilots of the Cessna 441 Conquest. The generic engineering and systems website is designed to assist pilots undertaking Conquest type ratings/endorsements; or it can be used as a systems refresher for those pilots that fly it. The Conquest is a brilliant [...]

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Edit Hosts file in Windows 7

June 23, 2010

After just having (finally) upgraded to Windows 7, I’ve come across a number of issues that aren’t necessarily typical from a Windows machine. This is the first. I normally run a batch file to patch the hosts file on various machines. On Windows 7, it had no effect – despite the fact that I had [...]

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The Apple Experience

February 24, 2010

Ok, so if you’ve read some of what I’ve written in the past, you’ll know I’m not actually pro-Apple. Let’s get that right out in front, so we can move on with what I want to say. Because what I want to talk about is a recent Apple tech support query which was … downright [...]

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Lost in a world of IT Choice … Not.

February 24, 2010

I have a confession to make. For some time now I’ve been indulging in an illicit, subversive, un-seemly behaviour – very much out of keeping with my persona and belief system as an IT hip type person (did I just use the word hip? Sorry, must be stress/guilt). I’ve been doing this despite having a [...]

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Perses, thy name is Ken …

February 22, 2010

At some point over the last few years, I have apparently encountered Perses, the ancient Greek God of destruction and have inherited his curse. Actually this is an imperfect syllogism, because while some of the things I touch these days certainly do turn to crap – they’re all basically computers. Unfortunately the Greeks seemed not [...]

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Flight.org

February 20, 2010

If you’re wondering why we haven’t posted anything here lately, it’s because we were busy setting up another blog at flight.org that we ‘launched’ on the 15th of this month. We’ve had a few emails querying the infrequent posts – and for this we apologise. We’re back on track now and should be back to [...]

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A problem with the PHP mail function… and alternatives

January 16, 2010

I hate the php mail() function. I’ve had so much trouble with reliability that I’ve pretty much given up on it as a means of sending mail. I now use the SMTP class SwiftMailer almost exclusively with everything I do… and I never thought or bothered to investigated the range of issues that were problematic [...]

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PHP Function to Force Links to Open in a New Window

January 15, 2010

Here’s a very simple PHP function that will parse text and force fully constructed links to open in a new window. If you’re building a comment area (or something similar) for your website it’s likely that you want to retain an open page to minimise your click-through-rate, and this function will assist to serve that [...]

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BBcode with PHP

January 14, 2010

What is BB Code? Bulletin Board Code or BB Code is a lightweight markup language used to format text within posts made on the majority of message board platforms, although it’s now widely used in any application that permits posts, comments or contributions from users. The available BBcode tags (similar to HTML) are usually indicated [...]

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My take on Short URL Services – Protect Your Brand!

January 13, 2010

You would have be living under a rock if you weren’t familiar with services that truncate long URL’s into shorter, more manageable links. For those of you that don’t know what they are, they take a loooong URL and shorten them down to fewer characters so they can be more easily managed for dissemination or [...]

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