http://www.allrollover.co.uk/alexander Social software, Development, PHP, Rants and Raves. You get the idea... Sat, 03 Oct 2009 15:54:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en With over six hundred movies to convert, Tom and I really needed to find out what shell commands ffmpegX was issuing behind the scenes. ffmpegX is fine with a handful of clips, but having to manually enter the setting for each file was never going to work for us. If ... http://www.allrollover.co.uk/alexander/2006/02/21/getting-command-line-calls-from-ffmpegx/ I wrote this code for a project I have been working on and figured it might be useful for others. The function splits a string into tags (i.e. the sort that can be attached to blog posts or social bookmarks etc.) Tags are written as a comma seperated list, can have ... http://www.allrollover.co.uk/alexander/2006/02/13/php-code-to-split-a-string-into-a-list-of-tags/ I will be sorting out the ‘post a comment’ function very soon (basically when I get around to downloading and installing something to deal with spam.) Please bear with me! http://www.allrollover.co.uk/alexander/2006/02/12/blog-comments/ I have been researching several MVC frameworks (in particular the Model components of these packages) as well as some separate ORM libraries for PHP. I have been getting more and more into Ruby on Rails ActiveRecord use, and have been interested to see how PHP libraries compare. So far I have ... http://www.allrollover.co.uk/alexander/2006/02/09/mvc-model-and-orm-frameworks-in-php/ Web2.0. I hate the label, but its here to stay (at least for the short term). What is it all about you ask? Well I guess that depends on who you talk to. I would like to think its about accessibility and useful, easy to use standards-based web applications. But ... http://www.allrollover.co.uk/alexander/2006/02/06/web20-its-about-money/ I have a couple of projects underway at the moment and will be announcing them via the AllRollOver main page very soon. http://www.allrollover.co.uk/alexander/2006/01/26/new-projects/ I have been looking into cross-site identity - being able to move from one domain to the next yet being recognised at each without having to sign in. This kind of thing is pretty much impossible to do via your typical web-browser due to the domain-security model that has now ... http://www.allrollover.co.uk/alexander/2006/01/26/flash-cross-domain-security-breech/ For quite some time now (for several years in fact) I have been building online-community software. Recently however I have felt the need to stop and step back from it all and look afresh at what has been built and what is being requested. I wonder if I have been ... http://www.allrollover.co.uk/alexander/2005/11/12/blog-tools/ Why are there so many beta web-apps out there? Does nobody finish their software these days? Or is it an excuse if everything goes wrong? It bugs me almost as much as ‘web 2.0′, and things prefixed with ‘i’ or suffixed with ‘r’ for no good reason. http://www.allrollover.co.uk/alexander/2005/10/28/iwebr-20-beta/ Everybody has to start somewhere, and I guess for me its this place. I have chosen to go with the WordPress blog software for the moment in very much in a suck-it-and-see kind of way. I have gotta say, I am impressed with it so far. But then, I have ... http://www.allrollover.co.uk/alexander/2005/10/28/tool-of-choice/