Easy abstraction layer for PDO

Sometimes it’s nice to have easier access to the PDO abstraction layer than PHP provides by default. This extension to PDO should do the trick.

PDO For WordPress and WP > 2.8

it’s been a while since i have had time to update PDO For WordPress. i have had a preliminary look at things and i believe that the incompatibility for new installs is based in the is_blog_installed() function. this should be fixable but is non-trivial. for existing installs, the fix should be trivial (indeed, I am […]

Children in need

I feel compelled to write this. To express in some tiny way the awe I feel for the Children in Need movement in the UK. Sir Terry Wogan is phenomenal. A consummate presenter through the ages, a scion of British talent and a bastion of straightforward decency. He’s a true British hero and fully deserving […]

iTunes Pricing

I am a media lawyer by trade. I spend more than half my time arranging and negotiating licences of movies, tv-shows, tv-formats and other media from one part of the world to another, across all distribution formats. Even with this experience I’m buggered if I can work out why iTunes is selling TV series for […]

Plugin to change the WP Email sender details and fix html entities

if you want to change the default sender in the WP core this can be easily plugged.
Equally it’s easy to fix html entitites being transmitted as their encoded literals in the email subjects.

This code shows you how

Timer class

here is some simple code to time the execution of your scripts.

Currency Exchange Class – multiple currencies and historic dates

I have been trying, for some time, to find a published API from a reputable source to retrieve currency pairs for a given date. i have found some that are chargeable, but none that are freeware.
Here is some code that does the necessary.

Upgrade to Core WP 2.8

following yesterday’s post I have found severe issues with WP’s plugin handling.

Upgrade to WP Core version 2.8.0

I upgraded to version 2.8.0 beta a little while ago. Quite apprehensively, if truth be told. But all went smoothly. I have now just used the automatic upgrade to the release version of 2.8.0. A few seconds and ’tis done. Damn impressive.

Plugin to fix 10px addition in WP image captions

WP Core Devs made a design choice a while ago to impose an arbitrary 10px ‘padding’ on the div that holds images and their captions. This plugin fixes that and the code for the plugin is here (as well as hosted on wp.org) <?php /** * @package FixImageMargins * @author Justin Adie * @version 0.1.0 […]