package playne

imports "programmer"

Senior Bug Developer

  • HTML5 input type=”number” and step granularity

    or how I learnt the hard way about the how the step attribute works. Being an old (VB4,5,6) windows developer, I mistook the “step” attribute on the <input type=”number”…/> HTML 5 element for what it used to be. It not only controls what the step is if you press the spin control but also defines…

  • missing SOA records and PowerDNS sending ServFail

    So today I was trying to resolve an issue with a domain we host. Two of our name servers were sending the correct info, the third was not. In the logs of the third name server I was seeing entries like this: Mar 1 08:26:22 ns3 pdns[19262]: Not authoritative for <domain> sending servfail to <ip>…

  • wpsc_update_custom_meta() nukes my custom post meta data

    So today I was rather perplexed as to why my custom meta box on my post edit page was not playing ball. It would be set to a value and always stay at it, delete it from the database and give it a different value – and it would keep that too.St Since I had…

  • Say hello to my little friend…

    So out the front of our house, a spider has taken up residence. It is a rather large orb(?) spider 🙂

  • WordPress, WP E-Commerce and the lack of ASYNC AJAX

    Now Normally the A in AJAX means Asynchronous, meaning you can have several requests going at once, so it was very confused as to why my AJAX wasn’t. My WordPress plugin is a long running import process and I decided to use AJAX so that I can provide timely feedback to the user as to…

  • Samba veto and .DS_Store OS X files

    So i have a samba file share that is accessed by several macs here at work. and since I do not like their .DS_Store files, I have added a couple of lines to the smb.conf to make my live easier! In the [global] section, add these lines: veto files = /.DS_Store/._.DS_Store/ delete veto files =…

  • You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.

    Note to self: do not use non prefixed global variables in your wordpress plugin. It causes all sorts of chaos. For example – gett the error “You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.” whenever you load a page that is not your plugins. For those playing at home, this is the code…

  • Get the WordPress Plugin URL

    So today I was writing a plugin that belongs in the tools section of the wordpress admin and I found myself wondering how to get the URL of the plugin.

  • Spiders!

    So recently we had a spider infestation in the Kwinana, there seemed to be spiders everywhere!

  • Movember at one week

    So here I am a week in. Support me! http://mobro.co/boxie