12Aug/16

Cookie Objects in Angular

August 12, 2016JavaScript, ProgrammingAngularJS, BCP, JavaScriptMichael

Cookies are designed to be a string, and often contain just one key/value pair, or get serialized into a string delimited by semi-colons or commas.  On one of my sites, I’m updatingRead More…

11Jul/16

Angular 1.5 Component Basics

July 11, 2016JavaScript, ProgrammingAngularJS, JavaScriptMichael

Components are going to be the way to do things in Angular 2, but I’ve got plenty of apps that are still using Angular 1.x, so to make my code more re-usableRead More…

10Jul/16

AngularJS choosing nested controllers vs components

July 10, 2016JavaScriptAngularJS, JavaScriptMichael

I’ve been rebuilding one of my sites to use Angular, and had attached my controllers to several endpoints that returned a variety of data models.  I built the endpoints following the principle ofRead More…

04Jul/16

Don’t Emulate Prepared Statements with PDO & MySQL

July 4, 2016Databases, MySQL, PHPDatabase, MySQL, PDO, PHP, Prepared StatementsMichael

Recently I have been updating one of my older sites to a completely new code base, and with that new code I’ve switched all old MySQL calls from the old mysql_* functionsRead More…

25Jun/16

Setting up Google Apps for Work

June 25, 2016GoogleEmail, Google, Google AppsMichael

Just recently I decided to switch the email for my domain over to Google Apps for Business, so that I could use Hangouts and Drive exclusively for my consulting clients, rather thanRead More…

19May/16

Coding Tools

May 19, 2016Eclipse, IDEs, JavaScript, PHP, ProgrammingAtom, PHPStorm, Zend, Zend-ServerMichael

Lateley, I’ve been looking for new coding tools, because I switch between front end and back end regularly. Previously, I had been using Eclipse with various plugins, and also Zend Studio (basedRead More…

15Feb/16

A bit behind, apparently

February 15, 2016Completely RandomMichael

Turns out my blog had multiple entries in “draft” stage, so over the next several weeks I will try and flesh out my thinking and post them.  If you see items showingRead More…

09Oct/15

Custom User Tables in WordPress

October 9, 2015WordPresswordpressMichael

I just ran across the user table configuration setting in the WordPress codex, and thought that it was pretty cool.  Essentially, you can have one or more blogs that all use theRead More…

04Mar/15

PHP OpenLDAP Configuration for Active Directory

March 4, 2015LDAP, Linux, PHP, Programming, Servers and Servicesactive directory, openldap, PHPMichael

In order to speak with AD servers, PHP installs need to use openldap.  And for the openldap server to maintain a trust level with the Active Directory server, we need to reference the AD’sRead More…

23Jan/15

Google Admin SDK (PHP) – User Updates

January 23, 2015Google, PHP, ProgrammingGoogle, Google Admin SDK, PHPMichael

If you’re managing users on site, and using Google for Education/Business to handle mail and calendars, you’re going to have to change passwords, change usernames, suspend and restore.  Thankfully, all of theseRead More…