Pretzels and Cake

Cheat Sheet Heaven

Florian — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 07:28:23 +0000

I just checked out a bunch of cheat sheets from Dave Child’s “Added Bytes” blog. There are sheets for:

Subversion
RegEx
mod_rewrite
PHP
CSS
SQL Server
HTML
Mircoformats
WoW
Ruby on Rails
ASP / VBScript
HTML
HTML Character Entities
JavaScript
MySQL

…and a RGB Hex Colour Chart.

I especially like the RegEx sheet with its pattern examples for email, save passwords etc.

via Nettuts.com

SEO cheat sheet

Florian — Mon, 19 May 2008 14:07:07 +0000

Selling SEO expertise as an extra service is a little bit like selling the top of a burger separately, since most of the job should be/could be done during the development process. So this is pretty cool: “THE” SEO cheat sheet for web developers. (via)

Using PHP to create TextMate commands

Florian — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:39:38 +0000

I just stumbled upon this on the TextMate blog: Ciarán Walsh wrote a blog post about using PHP to create custom commands for my favourite text editor/IDE/general weapon of choice: TextMate. TextMate already has a huge collection of snippets and commands for all kinds of languages that are easily expandable and that I use frequently. But I didn’t know you can use PHP to create custom commands. I will definitely try this out.

Link.

Finding color schemes with Adobe Kuler

Florian — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:02:07 +0000

There are tons of color scheme generators out there. Adobe Kuler is definitely one of the more complex. You can manipulate all kinds of parameters, like base color, brightness, scheming rule and so on. Plus you can extract colors from images.

Of course, there’s no webservice without a community these days, so if you register you can share your themes and downloads others to use them in Adobe’s Creative Suite if you find that useful.

PHP: UTF-8 and Spreadsheet Excel Writer

Florian — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 13:11:23 +0000

Spreadsheet Excel Writer is a handy tool to generate MS Excel files with php. But it has some trouble handling utf-8 sources. Luckily Research e-Labs describes a simple solution:

After recently working on an application to generate Microsoft Excel documents using a PHP script, I ran into trouble with the PEAR package “Spreadsheet Excel Writer” which didn’t correctly display UTF-8 characters (Māori macrons in this case). Here is a fix!

Google Static Maps

Florian — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 11:13:00 +0000

If you want to use google maps but don’t need a full-blown JS/Ajax map, you can now use static map images. The map is basically a request to maps.google.com that you can put into the src attribute of an image tag.

This little example outputs the image below:

More Information here.

…but what about the Pretzel?

Florian — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 07:55:33 +0000

The Pretzel is probably one of the most beautiful peaces of bakery. Its design is pretty close to the infinity symbol so I use it in the title of this blog to keep my options open (in case I need a break from writing about cakePHP and web stuff).

By the way, it’s delicious.