http://www.roxxor.co.uk/blog Fri, 07 Aug 2009 16:31:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It warms the cockles to see the heart-warming groundswell of support recently for discontinuing support for the fabled, flaky and flawed web browser Internet Explorer 6 with movements like IE6 No More and Hey I.T as well as daily stories from the tech press upping the pressure on web ... http://www.roxxor.co.uk/blog/2009/08/ie6-needs-to-go-but-still-at-a-25-user-base-we-must-unite-to-finish-it-off/ This article aims to help those who like myself wondered how to make text wrap within a table cell using FPDF to generate a the PDF. A few posts around the web seem to have missed the point that wrapping comes out of the box in FPDF using the MultiCell ... http://www.roxxor.co.uk/blog/2007/10/wrapping-text-in-fpdf-table-cells/ Today is very exciting for me (as well as others - National Defence Day in Pakistan, Independence Day in Brazil and Victory Day in Mozambique). But I'm excited because I received my Moo minicards - my roxxor business cards. Moo is an online printing company that produce a small set of ... http://www.roxxor.co.uk/blog/2007/09/moo-a-simple-idea-done-fantastically-well/ We always try to design things so they are cross browser compatible and that things work and look the same for all user no matter what version or operating system they are using. We encountered a problem recently with a site not rendering correctly in IE6.0 - of course our dev ... http://www.roxxor.co.uk/blog/2007/08/what-browser-version-to-design-for/ Having heard rave reviews of Ubuntu being a real alternative to Windows, I was keen to test this hypothesis out. I downloaded the latest server edition (7.04) and burned the ISO to a CD. Installation was fine and completed but booting Ubuntu failed at the very start of the boot process ... http://www.roxxor.co.uk/blog/2007/08/ubuntu-704-server-int-14-boot-error/ Always keen to trial new bits of software I came across Windows Live Writer and figured my first Roxxor Blog post was pretty much the perfect opportunity to test it out. I find the only time I get to do any blogging is during downtime on the train or while waiting ... http://www.roxxor.co.uk/blog/2007/07/windows-live-writer/ If you like coding PHP the OOP way then you will often find yourself in the arduous position of needing to populate your object attributes (member variables) from database row data. And you do this again and again and again, and you find it all rather repetitive, which it is. ... http://www.roxxor.co.uk/blog/2007/07/populate-php-object-attributes-from-database-column-names-dynamically/ Getting XAMPP working on Vista requires 2 things as far as I can see. I tried a fresh 1.6.2 install today but it does not work out of the box. Vista complains only about the Apache web server. Reading around, I saw developers saying all sorts, such as making copies of the XAMPP ... http://www.roxxor.co.uk/blog/2007/06/xampp-on-vista/ Today I had to solve the problem of HTML entities such as ' showing their full entity-selves when injected dynamically into dynamic text fields. The entities originated from an XML input stream fed into the Flash movie. Quite a few folk out there seem to have developed string search and replace functions, ... http://www.roxxor.co.uk/blog/2007/06/handling-html-entities-in-xml-passed-to-flash-dynamic-text-field/