David Hurst

PHP/MySQL, REALbasic, Javascript Developer

Woeful England - will somebody sack Steve McCLaren and drop Frank Lampard?

Did anyone else sit in stunned silence watching the England v Israel game on Saturday? 79% possession to England and no goals. Why is it when England have so many world class players they simply cannot produce a decent result? Simple really: big name players being played out of position. Here’s England’s best line up […]

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PHP - include all files in a folder

Ever wondered how to include every file, or a series of files in a folder without having to reference them individually? It’s easily done with PHP’s glob() function.

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Spare a thought for the British motorist - Part 1 - oppressive taxation

UPDATED: I’ve had to update all the figures in this post, because in the few months since I wrote it, petrol has risen by 10 pence per litre. Unbelievable.
Why is the UK government intent on killing off the car? Not satisfied with chucking our industry to the dogs, the senior governmental bean counters have turned […]

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How private is your e-mail?

Interesting question this, brought to the fore recently by a client of ours. Due to a mail server upgrade and subsequent restore of an out of date user database, his server reverted to an initial email configuration from when we had first commissioned the server. Oh dear…

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Sony Vaio FS315S - broken. Yet again.

I bought the Sony Vaio FS315S just over a year ago, and was initially impressed with the quality of construction and general performance of the machine. I looked after it and used it regularly until I bought my MacBook Pro, at which point it was used in my company.

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