Hi all! It has been quite a while since I last updated my Blog. This is mostly because I’ve undertaken a major change in my life. I just move from Portugal to London a month ago to work for a London based company as a Software Engineer. What does this mean? – Basically I won’t [...]

Hello!   This script will enable you to automaticaly resize images without loosing quality. It uses a simple math formulas to calculate the desired final size and then rerenders the image. The usage is very simples. On you HTML code just create an image and replace the src with: cropimage.php?src=img/myimage.jpg&size=320×240 src – the source of [...]

Hello! I’m 99% sure that you already heard about APIs or REST APIs, it’s what Twitter, flickr and a lot more companies use to share they’re resources with a consumer. A consumer can be anything from a website (for example, showing your Twitter updates on your blog or personal website) to a desktop / mobile [...]

Hello! Today I presented a talk at BarCampPT about WordPress and its Plugins. The reactions wore fantastic and I would like to share the presentation documents. Warning: The presentation was made in Portuguese.

The WP-PLS (short for Parallel Loading System) is a WordPress plugin that will enhance the loading efficiency of your Blog. It’s very simple to use and it will require a small amount of time to configure in the start.

UPDATE – 22/02/2011 Files for the 3.7.8 version of wp-e-commerce. I have provided only the altered files and full plugin if you just want to replace it.DON’T FORGET TO BACKUP FIRST!!Download → http://bit.ly/3-7-8-SKU UPDATE – 01/09/2010 If you need additions that are not contemplated in this fix package you can email me for a specific [...]

Screencast – mod_rewrite and PHP from José Airosa on Vimeo.

Today I bring you an easy and quick CSS tip for making Star Rating layouts, only with the use of CSS. The great thing about this one that I’m about to show you, is the fact that it’s continuous, meaning, it will work with percentage.
Confused?

- Let me show you an example!

Hello fellow readers!

Sorry for not posting anything for so long, but my work has been taking me most of my time… anyway.

Today we’ll go over on creating a PHP Script that will resize and crop (if wanted) an image with the added support of cache.

Ok, as for my first post after my away time I’ll be showing you how to make a… Yes you figured it out, a TagCloud.

A TagCloud is as you know a Cloud… with Tags… hum, for some reason I think you already knew that. Anyway, jokes aside, a TagCloud is one of the most powerful visual information display nowadays. It’s not a complex module, by the opposite, it’s very simple.