Archive for May, 2009

Referrer Detector 4.2.0.1 (and the IE pain)

On May 12 I managed to release the latest major version of Referrer Detector. As it was a complete rewritten, bugs are not a doubt expected. Since then, there has been 5 newer versions: 4.0.1 - A hot fix to for allow_call_time_pass_reference problem. As for version 5, PHP passes function parameters by reference by default, [...]

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Referrer Detector 4.0 is out!

Finally I’ve made it! Referrer Detector version 4.0 is now out! I decided to mark this as a major version increment because of these reasons: The code has been COMPLETELY re-written from scratch. As of the previous versions, it was one big file that handled everything from admin to front-end control. Needless to say how [...]

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Code snippet #2 - Shorten Links Using Bit.ly

Following the first snippet, here is another small one to shorten a link using Bit.ly. I chose Bit.ly over other link shortening services due to a simple reason: Twitter uses it as default (by now). Code snippet #2 - Shorten Links Using Bit.ly Purpose Create a shortened URL using Bit.ly. This is extremely useful for [...]

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Code snippet #1 - Get Latest Tweet

Ok so I’m following some guy’s recommendation (sorry, I really forgot his name as well as his blog address) to try to post something useful even when I don’t have anything to blog about. How about a series of code snippets? To some they are old but to the others they may help - for [...]

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