I’ve been extremely busy recently getting my business, Applied Brilliance, off the ground. Last weekend I entered the Dragon’s Den, as it were, to pitch my business to seven local business masterminds as part of Portsmouth University’s PIPEline scheme. Applied Brilliance won the prize for best use of technology as well as a membership to [...]
Portsmouth Creative Collective is a new meetup event for passionate entrepreneurs and creative professionals in the Portsmouth area. I’ve been taking part in Portsmouth University’s PIPEline programme for the last couple of weeks, which has taught me a great deal and introduced me to a load of awesome new people. Through these people I noticed [...]
Some nasty things happened that meant that Google was flagging this site as being ‘potentially dangerous’. As such, I’ve nuked everything and updated WordPress, which I assume was the culprit. Normal service will be resumed shortly.
CakePHP offers an awesome set of validation methods, but they rely on defining what you want to validate within a model. Sometimes you just want to quickly validate a certain piece of data, or validate a set of data iteratively without touching the model. For that, you can import the Validation class and use its [...]
I blogged a while back about seeing the Google Street View car driving around Portsmouth. It seemed to be speeding past rather quickly, so I wasn’t sure if it was taking photos or not. Well, long story short – it was! And so my blurred out self now becomes a part of something quite iconic. A snapshot of time, a snapshot of a whole country, millions of people living out their lives – recorded for all to see.
This is an awfully hacky way to perform a very specific task. My brief was to create a pie chart representing two data sets, each occupying half of the pie chart. The pie chart as a whole could represent the sum of the two pieces of data, whilst still representing them both individually.
array_unique() works fine for a single dimensional array, but falls down on multidimensional arrays because it relies on string comparisons. When it compares entries in a multidimensional array, it simply sees ‘Array’ === ‘Array’ and returns true.
YouScoob is a social networking site aimed specifically at the scuba diving community. It allows members to share their dive experiences and integrate as a community worldwide over the web.
Maximms is a mobile marketing suite allowing for easy drag-and-drop design of MMS messages to mobile phones. It allows customised images and videos to be rendered for each recipient on the fly, proving to be an extremely powerful marketing tool.