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ISBN X's

Just caught a little problem I hadn’t noticed before - books pages with ISBNs ending in X...
May 29th

Some issues

So, as soon as we launch bkkeepr, Twitter starts stumbling hard. One thing they’ve done is...
May 29th

GO GO GADGET

Bkkeepr is officially open. The beta has not exactly been “closed”, but it has been...
May 22nd

Worldcat, xISBN, and preg_match_all

Some books are still cropping up as the dreaded “Unknown Work by Somebody”. This is...
May 22nd

Finishing a book before starting it...

Somebody started a book five times. Thanks to a couple of new lines of code, that won’t happen...
May 21st

Error reporting

CodeIgniter, the framework that bkkeepr is built on automatically reports errors. So when...
May 21st

Adverts

Yes, the bane of our online existence has come to bkkeepr. A few thoughts about ads: I’m...
May 15th

Summer Time!

British Summer Time finally comes to bkkeepr via this simple hack: $now = time() - (60 * 60); ...
May 15th

ISBNs and PHP: The last hurdle?

It is still anoshing to me that after a couple of months on this, my ISBN-handling code is *still*...
May 14th

Where did you all come from?

From a base of eight invited users, bkkeepr now has 75 followers and about 50 active users, if...
May 7th

addslashes

One of those things you don’t know until you build a web app from scratch learning PHP/MySQL...
May 7th