PHP 5.3 – Namespaces and Late Static Binding
Work on the Mono machine continues. For reasons as yet undisclosed, I'm rebuilding the Mono test box from scratch. I'm not expecting this to resolve the previous issues I experienced while benchmarking...
View ArticleBuild a CentOS LAMP server
I finally finished re-building a development CentOS LAMP server. More importantly, and the primary purpose of the whole exercise, is that I finished my guide to building a CentOS LAMP server. I am...
View ArticleTen PHP Best Practices Tips that will get you a job
The last couple of weeks have been quite the experience for me. I was part of a big layoff at my former company, which was interesting. I've never been in that position before, and it's hard not to...
View ArticlePHP Variable Test reference
I thought I'd post a link to this PHP Variable Tests reference page. It's a great reference that's kept up to date with the current version of PHP. I use it sometimes when I'm waffling over what...
View ArticleDefend PHP
I ran across a great discussion at StackOverflow today that started with this question: I made a tongue-in-cheek comment in another question thread calling PHP a terrible language and it got down-voted...
View ArticleFacebook Notifications –"An unknown error occurred (out of memory)"
Over the last few months, I've worked with the Facebook Notification system many times, and there has always been a moderate-to-high level of frustration with it. It is difficult to test on a...
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An Exercise in WordPress Integration, or Why WordPress Sucks
I'd like to prefix my upcoming rant with the fact that WordPress is good at what it does: making basic blogs and publishing content. I use it, many other people use it, it works. Heck, I'm using it...
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MSB1025 – Adventures in Visual Studio Project Files with MSBuild
So we had a Sql Server Integration Services project that wasn't really being used currently, so one of our guys removed the project from our VS2008 solution file and checked it in. Worked fine on his...
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Installing Gearman and gearmand on Windows with Cygwin
Recently I've come face-to-face with a significant processing task for a web application written in PHP. I haven't worked with process control very much, so I started researching ways of distributing...
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HTTP Signed Requests with PHP
I thought I'd write a quick primer on a basic implementation of HTTP request signing with PHP. I see a lot of posts dealing with the topic, especially by people writing homebrew REST services. What are...
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