http://darrenoneill.co.uk Sun, 30 Aug 2009 21:52:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I probably use PostgreSQL just as much as MySQL these days due to client requirements and legacy applications I need to support. I don't mind this; I actually like PostgreSQL and used it extensively at university. One problem I do have with it though, is the fact there is no ... http://darrenoneill.co.uk/exporting-postgresql-result-set-to-csv/ I needed to create some custom error handling functionality on a CakePHP project I was working on a little while ago. The site URL contained tracking variables and I didn't want them to be lost if the people linking to the site got the URL or their individual tracking codes ... http://darrenoneill.co.uk/custom-error-pages-in-cakephp/ There are two areas of programming I have become lapse with over recent years: one is SQL and the other Regular Expressions. At University I tailored my degree towards database management taking both database and data mining modules in my final year. However I admit I have become lazy recently ... http://darrenoneill.co.uk/regular-expressions-and-postgresql/ After trialing various web development frameworks we have settled on CakePHP at work. I have managed to convince the developers we should ditch our custom made MVC framework and we haven't looked back since. This week I started using Cake for a fairly ambitious project - a pan European multi-lingual ... http://darrenoneill.co.uk/multi-lingual-routing-in-cakephp/ Recently I have taken an interest in Bing, Microsoft's new search engine which they intend to replace live.com. It is due to go live in America in early June and hopefully worldwide not too long after. The big challenge Microsoft face now is getting us all to use the service; ... http://darrenoneill.co.uk/bing/ It has been about 5 years since I last developed anything in Java. That project was a website for a company licensing images for various products worldwide. I didn't particularly enjoy the experience and remember setting up the server was a real pain. Now enough time has passed and ... http://darrenoneill.co.uk/getting-back-into-java/ I have been using both Safari 4 on Mac and Internet Explorer 8 on PC recently to see if they could persuade me to ditch Firefox as my default browser. Firstly I installed Safari 4 and decided to try and use it for a whole week for both work and ... http://darrenoneill.co.uk/new-browsers/ I have had my iPhone for nearly a year now and still love it but I am always looking at the latest handsets coming out to see if an iPhone killer is on the way. So far, in my opinion, nothing has come close to the iPhone in terms of ... http://darrenoneill.co.uk/windows-mobile-65/ Today is an important day for the digital team. We have just launched a new product for the 180 Honda dealerships in the United Kingdom: SICAMS (Simple Integrated Campaign Management System) is a bespoke to Honda car dealers system that enables dealerships to manage their own professional email marketing campaigns with ... http://darrenoneill.co.uk/hsp-launch-honda-email-system/ When I moved a little under 2 years ago now I was faced with having to pay BT £125 to come out and fit a telephone line for me so I could purchase an ADSL internet connection or switch to Virgin Media. I never thought I would go for a ... http://darrenoneill.co.uk/50mb-cable-internet/