Archive for July, 2009
The Logic behind naming roads
I currently live in the triangle area in North Carolina. This morning, actually, just a few minutes ago, I overheard the announcer on the NBC17 news say that I440, the circular interstate that wraps around Raleigh, will be renamed.
At the moment the naming convention is "the inner beltline" for the lane that moves clockwise, and […]
Posted: July 27th, 2009 under Uncategorized.
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Implementing short URLs using case-sensitive Routes with Zend Framework
Since short URLs are all the rage these days, I wanted to outfit one of my websites with its own short URL capability.
A simple way to accomplish this is to base62 encode a numeric identifier (the database table's primary key). In order to identify a URL as a short URL, it will be prefixed with […]
Posted: July 6th, 2009 under PHP, Zend Framework.
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