http://darrylclarke.com Random musings from a jaded coder who just needs a hug. Mon, 21 May 2012 01:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://darrylclarke.com/2012/05/05/experiment-the-viewport-viewer/ http://darrylclarke.com/2012/05/05/experiment-the-viewport-viewer/#comments Sat, 05 May 2012 20:12:08 +0000 Darryl Clarke http://darrylclarke.com/?p=860 As a little experiment, while I redesign my own site, I decided to create a ‘Viewport Viewer‘ It’s a little tool that’ll load up a site in an iframe and let you re-size the iframe to some specifics, like an iPhone, or iPad in portrait mode. Go play with it and see. It’s pretty straight [...]]]> http://darrylclarke.com/2012/05/05/experiment-the-viewport-viewer/feed/ 0 http://darrylclarke.com/2010/11/18/queueing-with-zend-queue-and-memcacheq/ http://darrylclarke.com/2010/11/18/queueing-with-zend-queue-and-memcacheq/#comments Fri, 19 Nov 2010 01:23:48 +0000 Darryl Clarke http://darrylclarke.com/?p=573 I was bored last night so I thought I’d enhance one of my applications with a little bit of Queueing. (And for the record both Queueing and Queuing are valid spellings depending on your locale) The concept is fairly straight forward. Normally when a web application runs, it runs in a linear pattern. It starts, [...]]]> http://darrylclarke.com/2010/11/18/queueing-with-zend-queue-and-memcacheq/feed/ 2 http://darrylclarke.com/2010/10/17/tell-your-redirector-how-to-do-its-job/ http://darrylclarke.com/2010/10/17/tell-your-redirector-how-to-do-its-job/#comments Sun, 17 Oct 2010 17:50:14 +0000 Darryl Clarke http://darrylclarke.com/?p=569 There’s a big difference between a redirect that uses a 301 and a 302 code on a website. If you don’t know the difference, you should find out. 301 says “This stuff has moved permanently and you shouldn’t come here anymore.” 302 says “You just need to go here, but this place will still answer [...]]]> http://darrylclarke.com/2010/10/17/tell-your-redirector-how-to-do-its-job/feed/ 0 http://darrylclarke.com/2010/09/26/the-quickest-way-to-tweet-via-zend-frameworks-twitter-service/ http://darrylclarke.com/2010/09/26/the-quickest-way-to-tweet-via-zend-frameworks-twitter-service/#comments Sun, 26 Sep 2010 18:01:46 +0000 Darryl Clarke http://darrylclarke.com/?p=545 This is a quick and dirty method.  It assumes a couple of things. You’ve already created your ‘app’ on twitter. You’ve already gotten your personal OAuth tokens from twitter. First you need to setup your tokens; $token = new Zend_Oauth_Token_Access(); $token->setToken("YOUR_PERSONAL_TOKEN")       ->setTokenSecret("YOUR_PERSONAL_SECRET"); Second, you need to setup the Zend_Service_Twitter using your access token as [...]]]> http://darrylclarke.com/2010/09/26/the-quickest-way-to-tweet-via-zend-frameworks-twitter-service/feed/ 0 http://darrylclarke.com/2010/05/04/building-an-api/ http://darrylclarke.com/2010/05/04/building-an-api/#comments Tue, 04 May 2010 21:10:57 +0000 Darryl Clarke http://darrylclarke.com/?p=324 I’ve decided it’s important for me to be able to expand my trivia to many different platforms.  Although it’s simple to just make it for facebook and call it a day, I think it’s something that should be more than that. So, I’m building an api for it.  The game play api (as I’ll call [...]]]> http://darrylclarke.com/2010/05/04/building-an-api/feed/ 0 http://darrylclarke.com/2010/04/20/coming-soon-lets-go/ http://darrylclarke.com/2010/04/20/coming-soon-lets-go/#comments Wed, 21 Apr 2010 03:07:51 +0000 Darryl Clarke http://darrylclarke.com/?p=311 ]]> http://darrylclarke.com/2010/04/20/coming-soon-lets-go/feed/ 0 http://darrylclarke.com/2010/03/22/the-hangman-rewrite/ http://darrylclarke.com/2010/03/22/the-hangman-rewrite/#comments Mon, 22 Mar 2010 08:51:07 +0000 Darryl Clarke http://darrylclarke.com/?p=293 I recently rewrote Hangman! (and also renamed it)  For those who don’t know, Hangman! was my first Facebook app.  I wrote it originally in June of 2007 and it silently lived on Facebook, deep deep within the depths of Application hell. Recently I decided that I should rewrite this little application. There were many things [...]]]> http://darrylclarke.com/2010/03/22/the-hangman-rewrite/feed/ 2 http://darrylclarke.com/2010/03/19/dictionary-apis-are-fun/ http://darrylclarke.com/2010/03/19/dictionary-apis-are-fun/#comments Fri, 19 Mar 2010 22:01:02 +0000 Darryl Clarke http://darrylclarke.com/?p=290 As part of my Hangman! application on Facebook, I plan on adding word definitions.  Like any good word app, it should tell you what the word means.  I’m not a big fan of sending off users to other sites when I don’t have to, so I looked into some dictionary APIs. These APIs are hard [...]]]> http://darrylclarke.com/2010/03/19/dictionary-apis-are-fun/feed/ 0 http://darrylclarke.com/2009/12/13/zf-tip-dont-use-index-as-a-module-name/ http://darrylclarke.com/2009/12/13/zf-tip-dont-use-index-as-a-module-name/#comments Mon, 14 Dec 2009 02:07:52 +0000 Darryl Clarke http://darrylclarke.com/?p=269 I’ve been using Zend Framework for a while and when I do my own sites things always work as expected.  But a couple of times in the past I’ve had the honor of working on other sites with other people that have lead me to a few ‘wtf?’ issues. The most recent one was as [...]]]> http://darrylclarke.com/2009/12/13/zf-tip-dont-use-index-as-a-module-name/feed/ 2 http://darrylclarke.com/2009/10/01/summer-project-updates-aka-wtf-am-i-doing/ http://darrylclarke.com/2009/10/01/summer-project-updates-aka-wtf-am-i-doing/#comments Thu, 01 Oct 2009 21:11:32 +0000 Darryl Clarke http://darrylclarke.com/?p=239 My ‘summer project‘ has now been demoted to just a ‘random project.’  Although I still intend on finishing it at some point, it’s clearly become far too delayed to call it a summer project anymore. I got overly distracted throughout the summer by family, fun, non-fun, and other projects.  Projects that I’ll explain a bit [...]]]> http://darrylclarke.com/2009/10/01/summer-project-updates-aka-wtf-am-i-doing/feed/ 1