Tower Of Power

I had an issue recently where I needed to calculate the Unix timestamp for the daylight savings time boundaries. According to the United States Naval Observatory, daylight savings time begins the Second Sunday of March and ends on the First Sunday of November.
Awkward date calculations if you don’t have the magical strtotime() function in PHP. [...]

So, after reading Mark Shuttlework’s blog on ideas for notifications in Ubuntu (basically mimicking Growl notifications for the Mac), I decided I wanted that kind of functionality, but… you know, NOW!
There are a multitude of options available but currently I’m liking Mumbles. Unlike, say, Specto, which does the monitoring itself, Mumbles provides a DBus interface, [...]

So I’m in the planning stages of a project where I’ll probably be doing some heavy lifting in Python and serving up the output through PHP. Obviously this will entail transmitting data between Python and PHP and while I haven’t had a chance to do performance testing to see if it’s worth it to save [...]

Nearly every application you could write in for the business sphere in PHP probably requires some sort of data export, most likely in the CSV format.
The easiest way to provide a downloadable file is by altering the headers and echo’ing the file content. In our case:
<?php
header(“Content-type: text/csv”);
header(“Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache”);
header(‘Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=”filename.csv”‘);
We want to set our [...]