Welcome to my website, a personal portfolio of works, ideas and thoughts relating to the software, game and web development/design sectors. From free to use code snippets to in-depth tutorials and technical explanations - I hope you'll find something of use here.
Continuing on from my first post last week regarding the first stage of the GCHQ Christmas card puzzle, we move onto stage 2 and delve into how you can solve this with a little bit of programmingcontinue reading…
A quick look at part one of GCHQs Christmas card challenge, a 25 by 25 nonogram picture puzzle.continue reading…
The current feature list and explanation of the content management system created by me for my personal website chrishair.co.ukcontinue reading…
Using the Lightpack Ambilight hardware and Prismatik software, I'll show you how to connect over telnet on your local network and issue commands to the Lightpack.continue reading…
A brief summary of my opinion on what to use and what not to use when storing user passwords and how to implement this correctly in PHPcontinue reading…
A quick demonstration on how to generate a UUID and the code which can create 10 at a time for your use, this is a legacy snippet imported from my old website.continue reading…
A quick introduction on how to use the PHP PDO extension and how to correctly use this with user inputted queries to avoid SQL injection attacks.continue reading…
A demonstration of how to create a signed request for access to the Amazon product advertising API in PHP for use with ItemSearch or ItemLookup.continue reading…
A quick and easy way to do a WHOIS lookup in bulk to lots of .uk domain names via Nominets WHOIS server, there are some limitations to this though as Nominet will only allow 1,000 queries per day to its server from any one IP.continue reading…
A nice and easy way to upload a .csv file into a database, maybe useful for some sort of web app where the user doesn't have access to the likes of phpmyadmin but still needs the ability to upload huge amounts of organised data.continue reading…
A PHP implementation of a password generator for basic authentication on apache web servers using the .htaccess and .htpasswd combinationcontinue reading…