Category: Development

7 Ways To Solve A Three Pipe Problem

Being a web developer essentially comes down to one thing – problem solving.

But at some point in every developer’s career they’ll come across a ‘three pipe problem’; a fiendishly difficult scenario that, try as they might, they just can’t seem to crack.

So here are a few tips that I’ve used in the past that might help when it happens to you.

Jonathan
28th Jun 2010
Development

Warning: Compilation failed in WordPress

Jonathan
11th Aug 2009
Development, PHP, Wordpress

I recently came across a strange new error message on a new install of WP 2.8.3

Warning: Compilation failed: characters with values > 255 are not yet supported in classes at offset 16 in wp-includes/shortcodes.php on line <line-number>

How to do Conditional Inserts in MySQL (INSERT … WHERE NOT EXISTS)

Jonathan
11th Aug 2009
Development, MySQL

At some point or other everyone needs to perform a conditional INSERT; one that is only executed after checking if the data is already in the database – so here’s how.

Division By Zero