It’s been a while since I last posted here. What with trying to get all my college assignments finished for the final deadline next week, work, a quick trip over to France and numerous other excursions, I simply haven’t really had the time. I’ve got a few things planned for…
Read more![Get Category ID From Category Name Function [WordPress]](http://www.jacobward.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/wordpress-get-category-id-from-name-function.png)
Working on a new WordPress plugin for a client, I found the need to get a category’s ID from the category’s name. Surprisingly, I found that there was no WordPress function to accomplish this. So, here’s the little one I came up with to solve the problem: Add this into…
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After nearly 5 months of waiting, a few days ago I finally received all my replies from the universities I had applied for – Southampton, Exeter, Birmingham City, Middlesex and Plymouth – and made the decision to accept the offer from Southampton. Originally, I had applied to study Computer Science…
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Note: This was going to be a massive review of the specific Access Course I’m studying – Access to HE ICT (Software). However, with so many modules to cover, one post just isn’t enough. So, this will be a general review and I’ll follow up with module specific reviews over…
Read more![Working With The Scraped Data [Part 2]](http://www.jacobward.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/working-with-the-scraped-data.png)
Web Scraping With PHP & CURL [Part 1] was pretty short and simple, so I thought I’d follow it up rather quickly with Part 2 – Working With The Scraped Data. In this part, we’re going to create a function to use the data that we scraped in Part 1,…
Read more![Web Scraping With PHP & CURL [Part 1]](http://www.jacobward.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/web-scraping-php-curl-1.png)
Things have been a bit slow around here recently, so I figured to keep things alive I may as well start a series of posts. As most of my freelancing work recently has been building web scraping scripts and/or scraping data from particularly tricky sites for clients, it would appear…
Read more![CGKeyCode List [Objective-C]](http://www.jacobward.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/cgkeycode-list-objective-c1-150x150.png)
In my attempt to simulate keystrokes in an app I’m currently writing in Objective-C, I looked into CGKeyCode, perfect, just what I needed. Now, what are the codes for each key? I turn to Google, expecting the first result to come up to be a list of every key and…
Read more![Age Validation Function [PHP]](http://www.jacobward.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/age_validation_function_php-150x150.png)
The most recent college project I’ve had is to develop a system for a video games shop. The last task was to evaluate the system then recommend and implement any improvements. One idea I had was for validating whether a customer stored in the database is in fact old enough…
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I know, it’s been a while, and I was supposed to be bothering to update here on a semi-regular basis… But, to be honest, I’ve had so much going on I literally have not had the time, but fear not, for there is a post coming (hopefully) tomorrow that may…
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This is something that’s been playing on my mind recently after discussions with a couple of people that seem intent on reinventing the wheel, or CMS in this case. With the plethora of content management systems out there to satisfy every need, from ecommerce to blogging, why create your own?…
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