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Flipflops.org is a mixture of thoughts about conceptual art and programming web sites.
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MySQL DATE_FORMAT() AND PHP date() formats
I’m always finding myself looking up strings to format PHP and MySQL dates. A simple d/m/Y is pretty straight forward but sometimes things can get a bit fiddly. Where ever possible I try and leave my date formatting in the database, but I still...
T-shirts
I’ve been designing a few T-shirts over the summer. Get yours now in time for Christmas before everybody gets one! Spotty Dog T-shirt Shiny Dog Organic T-shirt Butterfly T-shirt More T-Shirts...
Lithium, Doctrine & doing it yourself
If you use CakePHP you’ll probably be aware (or you’re dead or on holiday or something…) that Gwoo and Nate have left the project and gone elsewhere. Sort of. Well actually they have forked Cake3 into Lithium - souped up CakePHP for...
Sneak Preview
At the moment I’m working on an e-commerce project using the Amazon Product Advertising API. The website is called www.science-fictions.co.uk, and as the name suggests its theme is Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature. The project is built o...
Flirting with Django - part 3 - setting plural model names in admin
This is probably a bit obvious to any experienced Django user, but it took me a bit of digging to find. In Django when you create a model to use the automatic admin interface you have to add it to the admin.py file. Here is an example which only incl...
A nervy bit of sailing
