Having a good debugger and error reporting can mean the difference between spending an hour hunting down the line of code causing bug and killing it quickly. For PHP, xdebug is my preferred debugger (are there others?),. Thanks to this link on debuggable.com, I was able to find a precompiled binary for OS X. Setting […]
There are a lot of cases where having one computer just isn’t enough. If you’re a web developer or webmaster, you’ll want to view your website in more than one browser. If you’re a PHP programmer, you may be itching to check out the new 5.3 release and test your web applications on it. Using
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Add it to your aliases, this one liner adds all unrecognized files in the current directory (preceded by ? in svn status) to a svn project. svn st | grep ‘^?’ | cut -d ‘ ‘ -f 7 | xargs svn add
If you’re not familiar with them, anonymous functions seem to be a term of art that very advanced programmers throw around to make others feel dumb. Until now, my closest experience has been in using them with jQuery and javascript, but tonight I found a use for them in PHP. If you don’t read
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On development, testing, and staging site you normally don’t want Drupal’s caching, and javascript/css aggregation features enabled. Drop the following into your sites settings.php file to override these settings. // disable performance caching$conf[‘cache’] = 0;$conf[‘block_cache’] = 0;$conf[‘preprocess_css’] = 0;$conf[‘preprocess_js’] = 0;
Looks like my favorite PHP wiki has some really cool plugins for it. Old and New DokuWiki Plugins [splitbrain.org] During the last few weeks I wrote a few new DokuWiki plugins and updated some old ones.
I stumbled on this post over at the flickr developers blog while chatting with Jo about web applications designed and built for “the cloud”. An article earlier this week piqued my curiosity about message queues, and got me thinking about how they can be used to move processing tasks out of the way. I’d known
If you’re contemplating switching to running PHP5 under FastCGI, to take advantage of apache’s threaded worker model and improve your server’s performance, think again. If you’re used to setting and overriding php values via .htaccess files or using php_value/php_flag in your virtual host directory, this is not supported with FastCGI. You’ll have to figure out
I was noticing today many apache segfaults on this server, and pretty high traffic loads at times. I haven’t pinpointed the exact cause of high traffic, there are a couple candidates, but the apache segfaults seem to accompanied by the following PHP errors: [13-Aug-2008 13:55:27] PHP Notice: MemcachePool::get() [memcachepool.get]: Server 127.0.0.1 (tcp 11211, udp 0)
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Cal Evans wrote a straightforward and excellent tutorial on how to to use Zend_Auth and its OpenID adapter to authenticate users today. I was not only impressed by the tutorial itself, and I liked how he had code up front and so well commented, but also by how easy it was to implement the code