I have been working with the PayPal Payflow and a gem called ActiveMerchant. I had the need to basicly create models around the payment system. This ment when i am talking to the ActiveRecord model I will always be talking to ActiveMerchant (Payflow). This can be done by simply calling ActiveMerchant every time you need [...]
Models are the “M” in “MVC”, and play a key roll in keeping your separation.What I will be covering here can be taken to most PHP frameworks with a little tweak. Below I will cover how to use the Models in the Skoot PHP framework. First a little about Skoot: This small but powerful PHP [...]
Winn.ws is five! Today five years ago I posted my very first message on winn.ws. It was about making a tag cloud for wordpress, well wordpress quickly implemented that idea in the very next patch and i have nothing to do with it hahaha. Anyway over the past five years the site has been buzzing [...]
Skoot a micro framework This small but powerful PHP “micro” framework is a result from another project. I started using a “micro” framework called NiceDog. NiceDog is a very cool little one file framework that is super simple to use and get started with. It lacks the basic needs such as a database layer and [...]
A new side project I have been working on is in the financial industry. This project needs to pull stock information such as; price, change, and volume of a any stock. The source i will be getting this information from is Yahoo! Finance. Yahoo produces a cvs file with just the information i need, so it’s good news! The next task is to build something i can use over and over, something portable i can take from this project and implement on the next.
I have added a new feature for all the World of Warcraft players out there. As it stand now you may only share your WoW account feed to Facebook. This feature changes that, by allowing you to now share your WoW boss kills, items and achievements on Wordboxes!
phpArmory is a PHP class library. It allows php software developers to easily access data from the World of Warcraft Armory website. This is useful because the Armory website contains up-to-date and official details on characters, guilds, and items in World of Warcraft.
One of the latest project i have done for SCI is for a client named Paulette Greene. They are a large realtor shop here in the DFW (Dallas/Fort Worth) area.
Turn large annoying urls into short and simple ones! Your short url will go directly to the page of your choice, and last forever.
The latest revision of 2.4.8 was posted for release on May 9th 2010. The new version has two options (2.4.8b & 2.4.8c) both versions are production ready…
These days it seems like everyone is getting a bailout from the government. Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, AIG along with other big banks, stock brokerage firms and automakers are taking handouts from the government funded directly by you…the taxpayer. Lending Reform a site i am developing for SCI using the latest wordpress, along with a [...]
In one of my latest projects we are using memcache to store user data and other items that will improve user experience.
This is a new project i am working on with a few friends. I have had this domain for some time but never had time to use it.
The latest version of the popular guest book, added some major bug fixes and new features.
A simple script i had been working on for the Vetteblock project, that allows me to fetch photos from Flickr and display them in a list view. The project could not use php on the main server but could run JavaScript, so i needed to make an http request to the php script “FlickrHelper” and [...]
