Chris Duell duellsy Pro

Developer
Melbourne, Australia
Invited by Kyle Bragger

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http://chrisduell.com
@duellsy

About Me

Melbourne based freelance web developer, been working with the web since the late 90s

Creator of twithawk.com

Looking to fire up a few more startups to change the web

Got an idea? Let's chat ;)

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For an upcoming project, I need to be able to be able to get updates from Facebook pages in real tim...

How can I get real time Facebook page posts out?

Following the first post: forrst.com/posts/… I've made some changes, filled it out more, and...

Almost finished, but the guts are in

Recently, it seems I'm using Facebook less and less these days, and I've noticed that friends are al...

After Facebook... What's next?

This is my first attempt at designing a site, it's actually a redesign of an app I currently run tha...

My first design... WIP

For one reason or another, zendesk have lowered their starter plan from $9 per agent per month, to a...

Zendesks starter plan now $20/yr

I'm part way through building an application which will need to show hits over time to a users listi...

What's the best way to store page views over time?

Over the weekend I put together a quick little tool to track how effective you are at getting clicks...

App to compare social network click-throughs

Curious to know what people use to save bookmarks (not browser based), I was part way through buildi...

What do you use for bookmarks?

I'm building a site that has a user stream where people can keep tabs on different elements of the s...

Real time notifications in PHP

I've decided to make my Code Igniter template library public. This library is a complete rewrite of ...

CodeIgniter template library made public

Replace the 4 ?s in the query with the following in order: latitude of the centre point, latitude ...

SQL for finding locations near a given lat and long

I've removed a bit of code for brevity, but basically I had a table with about 16'000 locations (all...

Getting lat/long from an address via Google Maps

There's a stack of them, some more popular than others but popularity isn't always a sign of which i...

Your favourite PHP framework and why?

There's surely a bunch of users on here that post some of their work on github, so... whats your ha...

Your github account / projects?

Assumes that "data" has the rss/xml data in it already (to see how to read in an RSS feed with jQuer...

Parse RSS / XML with jQuery

When another site (or indeed your own site) needs to send you a JSON request, this is how to receive...

How to receive a JSON request with PHP

For a table named 'users', that has a field for 'joined' which contains a timestamp of the exact tim...

Collate timestamps by date with mySQL

This is the base I use for the majority of the dropdown menus that I need to build, and it's served ...

Dropdown menu with css and jQuery

Where "mysqluser" is the username, and "mysqldatabase" is the name of the database you want to expor...

Export and import mysql database using gzip

This will make sure that only the image is displayed, and the content is safely hidden from view wit...

Replacing content / titles with images for SEO / design

Running this from shell will remove all of the svn folders and their contents should you need to get...